Identifying Your Chanterelles
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Turbinellus kauffmanii
Turbinellus kauffmanii Gomphus kauffmanii
Frequency
Rare
Habitat
This rare and large chanterelle fruits in association with resinous trees in August and September.
Fruit body
Turbinellu kauffmanii can be distinguished by is vase-shaped fruitbody, beige-tan to light brownish; 7-25 cm hight and 5-20 cm across. Its fruitbodies become stained pinkish purple when bruised.
Cap
The upper surface is creamy to tan, and the scales are beige tan to brown; its scales are firm, up-turned and diminish in size from the center toward the edge. In Turbinellus floccosus, the scales are soft, appressed, and roughly the same size.
Margin
Margin wavy.
Hymenium surface
RunnIng deeply down the stem ; covered with longitudinal ridges and folds ; folds often forked and/or cross-veined ; creamy when fresh, maturing to brownish; sometimes discoloring and bruishing purplish brown.
Stalk
Flaring into the cap, from witch it is not distinctly separate, bald, whitish; discoloring brownish.
Flesh
Its whitish flesh is very firm, unchangeable when cut or crushed.
Basal Mycelium
Basal mycelium white.
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Like the Wolly Chanterelle, its flesh contains narcoperatic acid which causes gastric problems.
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