– Cap thin, funnel-shaped, with frilly cap edge.
– Cap surface finely fibrous-scaly, gray-brown, turning lighter gray when dry.
– Hymenium somewhat wrinkled, gray to yellow-gray.
– Stem gray-yellow to gray-brown.
Craterelloid fungi
Sinuous Chanterelle
Craterellus undulatus
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with oak and hazel on humus-rich soil in deciduous forests.
Notes
Edible but quite uncommon and rarely picked as an edible mushroom.
Similar species
Craterellus melanoxeros starts off more yellow and turns black with age.
Craterellus cinereus is darker in color and has a hymenium with distinct ridges.
Craterellus cinereus is darker in color and has a hymenium with distinct ridges.
