| Cantharellus ferruginascens P.D. Orton |
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common name(s) : Pale Chanterelle
synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius-ferruginascens edibility : edible
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The cap is ochre-buff to pale lemon yellow, paler and with greenish shades towards the rim, convex then expanded and depressed; its margin is lobed and irregularly wavy and upturned. The cap surface is smooth, dry. The stem is whitish to yellow-ochre, turning yellow strongly when manipulated, tapering towards the base, without ring. The flesh is whitish to cream-yellow, thin and flabby; its taste is mild; the odour is faint, pleasant; The gills are ochre-buff, concolorous to cap, darker with age, but these are not gills, but folds or ridges, decurrent, narrow, forked and quite distant, interveined and fusing into one another . The spore print is pale ochre cream. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods and woodlands, on a rather calcareous soil. The fruiting period takes place from September to October.
Distinctive features : Entirely ochre-buff to pale yellow; cap margin often wavy and paler, with olive shades in young specimens; cap and stem turn yellow-rust strongly when manipulated; fertile surface under cap composed of interveined decurrent vein-like ridges, not gills; thin and flabby flesh Cantharellus ferruginascens is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking . | ||
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