False Chanterelle - Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca

A yellow-orange funnel shaped toadstool with deep orange-coloured gills.  The gills are forked, narrow and closely packed, very unlike the gill-like wrinkles of true Chanterelle.  Note that there is a pale cream coloured variant, referred to as ‘variety pallida’.

the true Chanterelle (Cantharellus cibarius) - a rare species in Leicestershire and Rutland

Photographs from top down, in side view and underneath to show gills.  Note habitat and substrate.

Usually found in conifer litter but occasionally with deciduous trees.

Autumn.

Widespread and common in Britain.

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.

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