Identifying Your Chanterelles
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Blue Chanterelle
Polyozellus multiplex, Cantharellus multiplex
Frequency
Rare
Thérapeutique
Habitat
The Blue Chanterelle fruits in autumn on sandy soils in association with coniferous trees such as spruces, firs and pines, more rarely with deciduous trees.
Fruit body
The clusters can reach 5-8cm in height by 5-25cm in diameter.
Cap
Cap not concentrically zoned, individually 3-5 cm in diameter, dark purple to black.
Margin
A wawy margin that is initially whitish but darkens with maturity.
Hymenium surface
Running down the stem, smooth to wrinkled, or sometimes with gill-like folds.
Colored like the cap or paler, blackening with age.
Stalk
2-4 cm long, 0.5-1.8 cm thick, colored like the undersurface of the cap, fused with other stems at the base, full or becoming hollow.
Flesh
Flesh dark purple to black.
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Odor fragrant, taste mild. Spore print white.
The Polyozella multimlex secretes the polyozellin with is a chemical used in the treatement of alzheimer’s deseases. This ability has rendered this mushroom popular in the pharmaceutical community.
Furthermore, Polyozellus multiplex exhibits antitumor properties. Ingesting the mushroom may have benefits that help fight stomach cancer.
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