Bonfire Chanterelle
Description
Cap funnel-shaped, stemmed, Ø 1-4 cm, radially fibrous, matt, dull grey brown, with a depressed centre and often with concentric zones and with a long recurved, notched to fissured rim.
Gills ribbed to bordered, forked, descending on the stem, whitish to light grey cream.
Stem 2-4 cm x 2-4 mm, dirty white or brown grey to bluish grey, sometimes with a white mycelium strand. Flesh tough, whitish. Smell weakly aromatic.
Spore-print colour white.
Occurrence
On bonfire wood remnants in coniferous and deciduous forests on sandy soils.
Saprophyte.