Cantharellus cibarius Fr.:Fr. |
The cap is uniform, ochre-yellow to egg yolk yellow or yellow-orange, fading with age, convex to funnel-shaped, then depressed at the centre; its margin is incurved a long time, then irregular, thick, lobed and wavy. The cap surface is smooth to sometimes slightly scaly at the disk, more or less shiny, slightly pruinose in the youth, dry. The stem is concolorous to cap or paler, tapering towards its base but slightly evolving to cap at the top, without ring. The flesh is yellowish white, more yellow closer to the skin, thick, quite firm, unchanging; its taste is mild then slightly peppery or acidic; the odour is fruity, of apricots or Mirabelle plums; its texture is fibrous. The gills are yellow, same colour as cap, but these are not gills, but folds or ridges, decurrent, forked and quite distant, connected together at the base by small veins . The spore print is pale ochre cream. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods (low grounds) or coniferous forests (high ground), windy exposures, hillsides, clearings, on poor soils, on a rather acid or hardly calcareous soil, with beech, chestnut, oak, spruce, pine, fir, birch. The fruiting period takes place from May to December.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : Entirely yolk-yellow to bright orange; stem not clearly distinguished from cap; cap margin often wavy; fertile surface under cap composed of decurrent vein-like ridges, not gills Cantharellus cibarius is frequent and very widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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