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. |