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common name(s) : Golden Chanterelle, Luminous Chanterelle
synonyms: Cantharellus lutescens, Cantharellus tubaeformis-lutescens, Cantharellus aurora, Cantharellus xanthopus, Cantharellus tubiformis-lutescens
edibility : edible, good
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The cap is brown to brown-yellowish, convex at first, then flattened and soon lobed and horn-shaped or funnel-shaped; its margin is wavy, slightly inrolled. The cap surface is smooth to slightly rough, sometimes a bit scaly-fibrillose, especially at the centre, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is yellow to orange-yellow, full then hollow down to base, crooked or flattened, without ring. The flesh is tawny to yellowish, thin, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is pleasant, fruity; its texture is fibrous. The gills are yellow to orange, or greyish, decurrent to adnate, but these are not gills, but veins, distant . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in coniferous (sometimes deciduous) woods, with spruce, fir. The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Distinctive features : Brown to yellow-brown cap, trumpet-shaped; strong odour of Mirabelle plum; yellow to orange-yellow stem, soon hollow; folds under cap not very noticeable, looking rather like irregular veins or wrinkles, yellow salmon pink coloured, very similar to the stem's colour Craterellus lutescens is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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page updated on 14/01/18