Craterelloid fungi

Sinuous Chanterelle

Craterellus undulatus

LC Least concern Edible 7 images
Taste rating

Characteristics

– 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.

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.