– Cap thin, funnel-shaped, finely scaly, redbrown to yellowbrown, cap margin frilly.
– Hymenium light yellow to orange, with indistinct forked ridges giving a wrinkled appearance.
– Stem hollow, yellow to red-yellow.
– The taste is mild, and the scent is fruity and pleasant.
Craterelloid fungi
Golden Chanterelle
Craterellus lutescens
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows in damp and wet places among moss, often in spruce and birch forests along edges of streams and marshes. Usually on calcareous soils.
Notes
Good edible mushroom that, with its fruity aroma and taste, fits in many types of dishes.
Similar species
May sometimes lack some color pigments and appear in yellow or white forms.
C. tubaeformis has a hymenium with more distinct ridges and a darker yellow-brown stem.
Leotia lubrica is gelatinous and similar in shape but lacks ridges on the underside of the cap.
C. tubaeformis has a hymenium with more distinct ridges and a darker yellow-brown stem.
Leotia lubrica is gelatinous and similar in shape but lacks ridges on the underside of the cap.
