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Cantharellus luteocomus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

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  • Cantharellus luteocomus Mushroom
    Ref No: 7394
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    location: North America
    edibility: Inedible
    fungus colour: Yellow
    normal size: Less than 5cm
    cap type: Funnel shaped
    flesh: Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass)
    spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
    habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

    Cantharellus luteocomus Bigelow Cap 0.5-2.5cm across, convex and shallowly depressed with an inrolled margin, becoming flatter or more vase-shaped with a wavy, scalloped margin; orange-yellow; moist, smooth. Fertile undersurface running down the stem; orange-yellow to pinky-brownish with a whitish bloom in older specimens; smooth or wrinkled. Stem 15-30 x 3-6mm, stuffed; orange-yellow; smooth. Flesh thin, soft; orange-yellow. Odor not distinctive. Taste not distinctive. Spores ellipsoid, smooth, nonamyloid, 10-13 x 6-8.5µ. Habitat in groups or dense clusters on damp, mossy ground under birch and mixed woods. Found in Vermont and New York. Season July-September. Edibility not known.

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