Cantharellus friesii

Cantharellus friesii, the orange or velvet chanterelle, is a fungus native to Asia and Europe.[2] The cap color varies from deep yellow to reddish orange and is 2–4 cm wide. It occurs in beech, fir and spruce forests. C. friesii is considered a good edible mushroom, but because of its rarity, it deserves to be mindfully managed with limited use of fungicides if discovered on residential or commercial property. Harvesting the fruit bodies of the fungus will allow for further propagation of the species as its spores are dispersed along the collector's travels. The specific epithet friesii honors the mycologist Elias Magnus Fries.

Cantharellus friesii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Cantharellales
Family:
Cantharellaceae
Genus:
Cantharellus
Species:
C. friesii
Binomial name
Cantharellus friesii
Quél. (1872)
Synonyms[1]
  • Merulius friesii (Quél.) Kuntze (1891)
Cantharellus friesii
float
Mycological characteristics
ridges on hymenium
cap is infundibuliform
hymenium is decurrent
stipe is bare
spore print is yellow
ecology is mycorrhizal
edibility: choice

References
  1. "GSD Species Synonymy: Cantharellus friesii Quél". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2014-05-18.
  2. "English Names for Fungi". British Mycological Society. Retrieved 2011-03-25.
  • Krieglsteiner G.J. (2000). Die Großpilze Baden-Württembergs (in German). 2. Stuttgart: Verlag Eugen Ulmer. ISBN 3-8001-3531-0.


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