🇺🇸 golden chanterelle - 🇩🇪 Echter Pfifferling - 🇪🇪 Harilik kukeseen - 🇷🇺 Лисичка обыкновенная 8/13/09—7/4/26
🆔 Cantharellus cibarius Fr.
ℹ️ Hymenium: False gills / thick forked ridges, not true lamellae; blunt, wrinkled, strongly decurrent, yellow to pale yellow
ℹ️ Cap: Convex to flat, later shallowly funnel-shaped; margin wavy and irregular; smooth, egg-yolk yellow to golden-yellow
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Decurrent — ridges run down the stipe
ℹ️ Stipe: Solid, smooth, fleshy, same colour as or slightly paler than cap, merging gradually into the cap
🟡⚪🩷 Spore print pale yellow to creamy white, sometimes faintly pinkish
🌳🌲 Ecology ectomycorrhizal with broadleaved and coniferous trees, especially oak, chestnut, hazel and conifers; woodland soils, often acid; summer to autumn
👑 Edibility choice edible, highly prized for flavour and texture
📏 Fruit body medium; usually ~3–10 cm tall
📐 Cap ∅ up to ~10 cm
🔪 Flesh firm, pale yellowish-white, fibrous, unchanging when cut
🧪 No distinctive macroscopic reaction; spores hyaline in KOH
👃 Odour fruity, apricot-like, sometimes faint when fresh
👅 Taste mild, pleasant, not strongly distinctive raw
🔬 Spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid, ~7–11 × 4–6 µm; basidia typically 4–6-spored, hymenium formed on blunt ridges rather than true gills
🔤 Classic choice edible golden chanterelle with wavy yellow cap
🇺🇸 golden chanterelle - 🇩🇪 Echter Pfifferling - 🇪🇪 Harilik kukeseen - 🇷🇺 Лисичка обыкновенная