Identifying Your Chanterelles
3.3
Yellow Foot
Craterellus lutescens
Frequency
Very rare
Habitat
Craterellus lutescens fruits in association with resinous trees.
Fruit body
It is distinguished from other species by its fruiting surface which is smooth when young, then folded-wrinkled at maturity.
Cap
2-6 cm in diameter, brown to orangish brown, fading to tan.
Margin
Margin irregularly lobed and wavy.
Hymenium surface
Its fruiting surface which is smooth when young, then folded-wrinkled at maturity, pastel orangish yellow color.
Stalk
2.5 to 5.5 cm long, 4 to 11 mm tick, equal or tapered slightly towards the base, hollow, bald, bright orange.
Flesh
Its flesh ranges from whitish, to pale yellow, to orange-yellow and immutable.
Basal Mycelium
Basal mycelium white.
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