Description
| Species | Cantharellus cibarius |
| Difficulty ℹ️ | 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄 |
| Spore Coloration | Yellow to Cream |
| Ecology | Mycorrizhal |
| Edibility | Choice |
Bright orange to yellow cap with wavy margins; underside with orange-yellow, forked ridges (not true gills) that descend the stalk. Grows in soil. Late June to early August. Cap convex, becoming flat to funnel shaped, sunken in center, sometimes flowerlike; orange to orange-yellow; texture smooth. Underside orange to yellow, with narrow, thick-edged ridges that are forked and cross-veined, and descend the stalk; does not have true gills. Stalk can be curved or off-center; orange to yellowish to whitish; texture smooth; flesh is white. Spore print pinkish yellow. Spores magnified are elliptical, smooth.
These delicious fungi taste and smell like apricot – one of their most easily identifiable traits! Poisonous lookalikes include the Jack ‘O Lantern mushroom.
Photos on this page may have been sourced from iNaturalist, taken by bjoerns, Michel Langeveld, Haltiamieli, Janne Passi, Christian Pietzsch, or others. Licensed under CC-BY-SA3.0.
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