– Cap thin, funnel-shaped, yellow-brown to brown-black.
– Hymenium with yellow to gray forked ridges that extend down the stem.
– Stem hollow, brown-yellow to yellow.
Chanterelles
Trumpet Chanterelle
Craterellus tubaeformis
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows in mossy coniferous forests with pine and spruce throughout Europe. Also grows with beech in decidous forests.
Notes
A popular and tasty edible mushroom. No poisonous mushrooms resemble C. tubaeformis, but be careful when picking since they can grow togheter with the very poisonous Cortinarius rubellus.
Similar species
Craterellus lutescens is similar but lacks distinct ridges under the cap.
Leotia lubrica is a gelatinous and similar-looking mushroom that lacks ridges on the hymenium.
Chrysomphalina chrysophylla is similar from above, but it grows on rotting wood and has yellow gills.
Leotia lubrica is a gelatinous and similar-looking mushroom that lacks ridges on the hymenium.
Chrysomphalina chrysophylla is similar from above, but it grows on rotting wood and has yellow gills.
