21/Sep/25, 2:16 PM
Kõrveküla, Lääne-Viru, Eesti
Mixed forest, near pines, mossy area
59°14'09.4"N 25°39'24.0"E
🌡️ 21°C 🌤️ Passing clouds. Wind 220° SW->NE, 19 km/h
Original Instagram postCantharellula umbonata
the humpback
- Scientific identification
- Cantharellula umbonata (J.F.Gmel.) Singer
- Family
- Tricholomataceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Cantharellula
Names across languages
- English: the humpback
- German: Rötender Wachstrichterling
- Finnish: Haaraheltta
- Estonian: Kühmkantarellik
- Russian: Кантареллула бугорковая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2025-09-21.
Hymenium
Gills, frequently forked, white when young
Cap
Convex to flat with a small bump, surface grayish, minutely tomentose, radially wrinkled or slightly striate, margin incurved when young and becoming wavy
Hymenium Attachment
Decurrent
Stipe
Slender, often equal or slightly tapering, color similar to cap, sometimes moist, base with moss/mycelial attachment
Spore print
Spore Print white
Ecology
Saprotrophic, bryophilous (Polytrichum and other mosses), under conifers, heathlands, acidic soils, summer and autumn
Edibility
Edible (especially when young), not highly prized
Fruit body
Fruit body medium, stipe 2.5–12.5 cm long, 0.3–0.7 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap 2–5 cm diameter
Flesh
Flesh is white, when bruised, flesh and gills may stain reddish
Odour
Mild, pleasant
Taste
Mild, pleasant
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid-to-elongate, smooth, ~6–10×3–5µm, amyloid in iodine, absence of cystidia is typical, no cheilocystidia or pleurocystidia
Overview
Modest gray-toned mushroom, fruiting in association with moss, distinguished by its umbonate cap
1936). Revue Mycol., Paris 1(6): 281.
Field encounters
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