Cantharellula umbonata (Fr.) Singer Grayling. Cap 2-5cm across, convex becoming funnel-shaped with a small central umbo and sometimes a wavy margin; grayish brown to smoky or violaceous gray; dry and minutely hairy. Gills decurrent, crowded, narrow, thickish, regularly forked; whitish bruising red or yellow. Stem 25-80 x 3-7mm, tough, stuffed; whitish to graying; silky. Flesh white, bruising red where cut or handled. Odor scented. Taste mild. Spores subfusoid, smooth, amyloid, 8-11 x 3-4.5µ. Deposit white. Habitat scattered or in groups in hair-cap moss. Common. Found widely distributed in northeastern North America and Europe. Season August-November. Inedible. |