Identifying Your Chanterelles
6.1
Pig’s Ear Gomphus
Gomphus clavatus
Frequency
Infrequent
Habitat
It fruits mainly during the month of August in forests where coniferous trees are present.
Fruit body
When mature, the fruiting bodies of this chanterelle are easily recognized by their inverted club-shaped shaped fruitbodies.
Cap
Caps up to 10 cm wide, at first clavate, the apex truncate, expanding to form a vase-shaped fruitbody, one side typically showing geater developement than the other, surface smooth to finely squamulose, especially near the center, the latter often depressed, lavender-purple to purple-brown when young, fading to buff-brown in age.
Margin
Margin undulate and lobed, upturned in age, sometimes retaining lilac tones.
Hymenium surface
Fertile surface decurrent, varing from blunt, interconnecting ridges to anastomosing veins and wrinkles, lilac purple to purple brown fading in age.
Stalk
5 cm long X 1-3 cm tick; short, solid, sometimes hollow at maturity, central to laterally attached, tapering downward, often fused at the base with adjacent fruitbodies, surface lilac-brown apically, white to pale brown below.
Flesh
Flesf tick, yellowish white ro pale buff, unchanging when cut. Edible and choise for some authors, but usually regarded as mediocre locally, often infested by fly larva.
Comments
Send a comment
No comments yet.
For more informations