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Red Chanterelle

Cantharellus cinnabarinus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) chefray416, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in North Carolina.

United States	7,983
North Carolina	2,218
Virginia	1,884
New York	1,303
Massachusetts	1,266
Pennsylvania	1,135
New Jersey	1,026
Connecticut	963
Maryland	884
Tennessee	869

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

Traits

Physical

ColorfulStrikingly colorful or patternedChecked by the maintainer

Group and habits

Human edibleListed as edible by a harvested source. This is a research trait, not foraging advice.Checked by the maintainer
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

Kingdom	Fungi Including Lichens · Fungi
Phylum	Basidiomycete Fungi · Basidiomycota
Class	Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies · Agaricomycetes
Order	Cantharellales
Family	Hydnaceae
Genus	chanterelles · Cantharellus

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Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
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