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Yellow Foot

Craterellus lutescens

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 532, February 393, March 616, April 969, May 1,397, June 1,523, July 1,630, August 1,402, September 1,029, October 768, November 420, December 328.
United States11,263
Alaska11,007
Canada186
Ontario128
Spain113
Portugal87
New York84
Sweden61
Cataluña/Catalunya51
Italy50

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
  • Human edible commercially tradedRecognized by a harvested source as edible and suitable for commercial food trade.Mushrooms traded as food, Volume I
  • 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

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