Identifying Your Chanterelles
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Grayling
Cantharellula umbonata
Frequency
Common
Habitat
Found in the mosses of coniferous forests, it fruits in late summer and autumn until the snow.
Fruit body
This small gray chanterelle is distinguished by its depressed cap, umbonate in the center, and its forked false gills
Cap
2-5 cm in diameter; convex at first, becoming flat in sunken, most specimen with a small pointed ombo, grey to greyish brown overhall, smooth to minutely hairy.
Margin
Margin incurved at first, becoming upturned in age.
Hymenium surface
Close to crowded, decurrent, repeatedly and regularly forked, whitist developing spot-like reddist or sometimes yellow stains in age.
Stalk
2.5-8 X 0.3-0.7 cm; white to grey, silky above, stuffy, usually with whitish mycelium binding the lower stalk to mass.
Flesh
White.
Basal Mycelium
White basal mycelium.
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