Identifying Your Chanterelles
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Chicago Chanterelle
Cantharellus chicagoensis
Frequency
Very rare
Habitat
The Chicago Chanterelle is the most common tupe of chanterelle found in the northeastern Illinois, hense its name.
Fruit body
This rare chanterelle is found in hardwood deciduous forests from July to September.
When young, it often has a pale, greenish tint around the margin.
Cap
2 to 7 cm in diameter. Color light or moderate yellow or orange yellow. The center of the cap also tends to become gray and scaly when mature.
Margin
Rounded when young, greenish yellow, becoming wavy with age.
Hymenium surface
Hymenium ridges pale to light orange yellow or yellow, well deveopped, running down the stem, with regular or interconnected forked ridges.
Stalk
2.5 to 9 cm hight, 0.8 to 1.5 cm thick; equal or tapering to base, color light or moderate yellow or orange yellow.
Flesh
The white flesh turns yellow to orange in insect injury.
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