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*** Edible
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Yellow, fleshy mushroom.
Ready for the pan without cooking. |
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Pileus |
The
cap is 3–12 cm wide, egg-yellow,
fading with age, smooth, surface quite flat at first, later form of the fruit
body vase- to funnel-shaped,
sturdy especially when young, margin wavy and irregularly lobed in age. The flesh is thick and firm, whitish yellow. |
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Hymenophore |
The ridge-like gills are irregularly
forked,
concolorous
with the cap or
somewhat paler, decurrent running almost all the way down the stem. |
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Stipe |
The stem tapers down seamlessly from the
cap, narrowing at base. |
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Odour and taste |
The smell is pleasant, fruity and the taste
is mild, sometimes a little bitter. |
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Habitat |
It is found in all kinds of woods,
typically in thin forests with lots of daylight. It often grows in
clusters and is quite common in Finland and Sweden. |
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NB. |
The Yellow Chanterelle is easy to
recognize and only rarely attacked by larvae. |
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Synonyms |
Agaricus
chantarellus
L., Sp. pl. 2: 1171 (1753) —
Agaricus chantarellus Bolton, Hist. fung.
Halifax (Huddersfield) 2: 62 (1788) —
Alectorolophoides cibarius (Fr.) Earle, Bulletin
of the New York Botanical Garden 5: 407 (1909)
— Cantharellus cibarius f. neglectus M. Souché,
Bull. Soc. mycol.
Fr.
20: 39 (1904)
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Cantharellus
cibarius var. albidus Maire,
Publ. Inst. Bot.
Barcelona
3(4): 49 (1937)
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Cantharellus cibarius var.
neglectus (M. Souché) Bigeard & H. Guill.
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Cantharellus neglectus (M. Souché) Eyssart. & Buyck, Bulletin de
la Société Mycologique du Limousin 116(2): 121 (2000)
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Cantharellus
pallens Pilát, Omagiu lui Traian Savulescu: 600 (1959)
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Cantharellus
vulgaris Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 636
(1821)
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Chanterel chantarellus
(L.) Murrill, N. Amer. Fl. (New York) 9(3): 169 (1910)
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Craterellus
cibarius (Fr.) Quél., Fl. mycol. France (Paris): 37 (1888)
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Merulius
chantarellus (L.) Scop., Fl. carniol., Edn 2 (Wien) 2:
461 (1772)
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Merulius cibarius (Fr.)
Westend., Hausschwammforsch.: no. 340. |
