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Blackening Chanterelle

Craterellus melanoxeros

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) marioweb, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

24 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Russia.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 0, May 0, June 0, July 5, August 21, September 3, October 2, November 0, December 0.
Russia31
France18
Moscow Oblast15
Italy10
Spain9
United Kingdom8
England7
Centre-Val de Loire6
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast6
Galicia4

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Human edibleListed as edible by a harvested source. This is a research trait, not foraging advice.FungiTastic metadata
  • Mycorrhizal fungusDescends from a fungal lineage whose members commonly form mycorrhizal associations.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomFungi Including Lichens · Fungi
PhylumBasidiomycete Fungi · Basidiomycota
ClassMushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies · Agaricomycetes
OrderCantharellales
FamilyHydnaceae
GenusTrumpets · Craterellus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Blackening Chanterelle with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.