Wild chanterelle at my house?
Moved (S Louisiana, 9a) late summer last year. This is my first spring and early summer in the house. I thought I saw a cap or two last August, but couldn’t really investigate at the time. Lately we’ve gotten tons of rain over the last few days and my suspected chants are back!
I love eating and growing super common mushrooms, but no nothing of IDing on my own. I’m seeing the color and build of a chanterelle. They’re growing under the canopy of trees but not on the wood itself. Most of them are growing as singles, but there is a patch that is clustered which seems that it could be a look alike. This is where I’m confused. The clustered group is too small to get good photos of and may be a completely different mushrooms, but their prescience has me scared to eat the singles.
Can anyone weigh in? If they are chanterelle, is there any way to promote growth, yield, spread to other areas, or make them appear more regularly?
Pics 1-4 are of the chanterelle
Pic 5 is of the very nearby and similarly colored clustered group
Other pics are of some clearly not chanterelle but interesting nonetheless fungi. Bonus points for an id here. The looks and feel like spray foam insulation.