– Cap funnel-shaped, yellow to gray-brown.
– Cap margin often wavy and lobed.
– Hymenium gray-yellow with gray to gray-lilac forked ridges.
– Stem yellowish to pale yellow-brown.
– The entire fruitbody blackens when drying and when bruised.
Chanterelles
Blackening Chanterelle
Craterellus melanoxeros
NT
Near threatened
Inedible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with oak and hazel on calcareous and nutrient-rich soil in deciduous forests.
Notes
All chanterelle mushrooms in Europe are edible, but the species is rare enough that it should not be picked for consumption.
Similar species
C. tubaeformis is similar in shape and size but does not blacken.
