Winter Chanterelle / Yellowfoot

Cantharellus aurora

Grassy, damp deciduous and coniferous forests, especially mixed spruce forests. End of summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies not fleshy, small. Cap 3—6 cm across, also grows larger, shaped like a deep funnel, matt, fibrous, with irregularly lobed, wavy, crimped margins, ochre-brown, yellowish-blackish-brown. There are no gills, only a network of thickened, dichotomously branched orange-yellow ridges. Stem 3-4x0.3-1 cm, tube-shaped, tapering downwards, orange, golden yellow. Flesh thin, yellowish, pleasant in taste, with a strong fruity smell. Characteristic features: cap dirty yellowish, dark yellowish-brown. Sometimes grows in large groups in forests, in damp, grassy places. Edible, but of no special value. Not rare.