Pseudohygrocybe chanterelle (Pseudohygrocybe cantharellus)
- Hygrocybe cantharellus
Pseudohygrocybe chanterelle belongs to a large family of hygrophoric fungi.
It grows everywhere, found in Europe, and in the regions of America, and in Asia. In the Federation, chanterelle pseudohygrocybe grows in the European part, in the Caucasus, in the Far East.
The season is from mid-June to the end of September.
It prefers mixed forests, although it is also found in conifers, it likes to grow among mosses, in meadows, along roadsides. Also, experts note that in some cases specimens of this species were found growing on mossy and destroyed wood. Grows in small groups.
The fruiting bodies are represented by a cap and a stem. At a young age, the shape of the cap is convex, in mature mushrooms it is prostrate. It can also take the form of a large funnel. There is a small depression in the center, the surface is velvety, the edges are slightly pubescent. On the entire surface of the cap there are small scales, while in the middle there can be a lot of them.
Coloring – orange, ocher, scarlet, with a fiery red tint.
Leg up to seven centimeters long, may be slightly compressed. Hollow, the color of the legs is like that of a mushroom cap. There is a slight thickening at the base. The surface is dry.
The flesh is whitish or slightly yellow. Has no smell and taste.
Pseudohygrocybe chanterelle is an agaric fungus. The plates are rare, yellowish in color, in the form of a triangle or an arc, descending to the stem.
Spores – in the form of an ellipse, rather even an ovoid appearance. The surface is smooth, the color is cream, white.
This species belongs to inedible mushrooms.