Identifying Your Chanterelles
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Small Chanterelle
Cantharellus minor
Frequency
Rare
Habitat
It fruits in deciduous to hardwood forests.
Fruit body
Very small chanterelle whose fruitbodies come in two colors, yellow and orange. Its small size and color mean that it is often mistaken for an Hygrophorus.
Cap
l5-20 mm across; broadly convex when young, becoming planoconvex and shallowly depressed, yellow to orange-yellow or orange. Not developing a central perforation.
Margin
Arched and weavy margin.
Hymenium surface
Well developed false gills that run down the stem are distantly spaced, colored like the cap or slightly paler.
Stalk
10-40 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, slender, equal or tapering slightly to base; hollow, bald, colored like the cap or paler.
Flesh
Its flesh ranges from yellow to orange-yellow.
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