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Cantharellus ferruginascens.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Rostfleckiger Pfifferling
Cantharellus ferruginascens Mushroom
Ref No: 7389
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location: Europe
edibility: Edible
fungus colour: Orange
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged, Flesh fibrous usually pliable (like grass)
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Cantharellus ferruginascens Orton Rostfleckiger Pfifferling. Cap 2–6cm across, convex then expanded-depressed, irregularly lobed and wavy at the upturned margin, ochraceous-buff bruising rusty ochraceous. Stem 20–40 x 5–20mm, robust, tapering towards the base, yellowish-cream, bruising like the cap. Flesh whitish to yellowish-cream. Taste mild, smell faint and pleasant. Gills decurrent, narrow, forked, interveined and fusing into one another, pale yellowish cream darkening with age. Spore print pale creamy-yellowish. Spores broadly elliptic, 7.5–10 x 5–6µ. Habitat gregarious, in mixed woodland on chalk soils. Season late summer to early autumn. Rare. Edible. Found In Europe.

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Mirosław Wantoch-Rekowski (Poland) - 02 September 2010

Lasy bukowe.Gdansk Oliwa.Poland
Cantharellus ferruginascens
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