Plate I
Golden Chanterelle
Cantharellus cibarius
Choice edible
Blunt false-gill ridges that fork and run down the stem — never sharp blades.
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- 1False-gill ridges
- 2Solid stipe
- 3Apricot flesh
Specimen record
Field notes
A solid, egg-yolk-to-apricot funnel with a wavy margin and a faint scent of apricots. The hymenium is the tell: shallow, blunt, forking ridges that decurrently run onto a stem that is solid all the way through when you split it — not the hollow, sharp-gilled trap of its look-alike.
Do not confuse with · ✗
Jack-o'-lantern (Omphalotus)
True sharp gills, grows in clumps on wood, and is toxic. Chanterelle ridges are blunt and it rises from soil.
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