Cantharellus cibarius
The golden chanterelle is a yellow chanterelle with blunt ridges instead of true gills under its cap. It has a faint apricot smell. It can be confused with the false chanterelle and poisonous jack-o'-lantern mushrooms.
Deciduous and coniferous forests, typically from June to December.
Grows in Europe from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean Basin.
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Red spots appear on its cap where it is damaged.
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Underside has blunt, thick, forking ridges running down the stem, not true gills
Thick, firm, whitish flesh with an apricot smell
Grows singly or scattered on soil; the poisonous olive jack-o'-lantern grows in dense clusters at tree bases with true thin gills
Egg-yolk yellow; the false chanterelle is deeper orange, thin-fleshed, with true forked gills
Pale yellowish spore print; the orange-brown deadly webcap leaves a rusty brown print
The rungs scientists use to place living things by how closely related they are — from broad to narrow.
Not known to be poisonous — still never eat it