Cantharellus friesii

Orange Chanterelle

Description
Fruit-body flattened to naveled funnel-shaped. Cap Ø 1-4 cm, naveled funnel-shaped, with an irregularly torn, turned down margin, surface smooth to fine clayish, pale to dark orange or orange-brown. Lower surface with irregularly forked, net-like connected ridges, yellowish, sometimes with a pink or salmon-coloured tinge.
Stem 1-3 x 0,5 cm, smooth to fine felty, becoming hollow, pale to dark orange. Flesh thin, white to pale yellow.
Taste sharp. Smell faint.
Spore-print colour pale yellow.

Occurrence
In broad-leaved woods (Beech) on loamy soil.
Forming ectomycorrhiza.

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