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hatune vurrik(Gomphus floccosus) Andrus Voitki Seenelehelt.
Common Name: Woolly Chanterelle
Pileus
Cap cylindrical, becoming vase-shaped or funnelform, up to 15 cm broad, the margin plane to strongly uplifted; surface moist, nearly smooth when young, squamulose to coarsely scaly at maturity, especially at the center, the scales sometimes flat and inconspicuous when weathered; color yellowish-orange to reddish-orange fading in age; flesh moderately thick, white, unchanging; odor and taste mild.
Hymenium
Fertile surface wrinkled or with blunt ridges and veins, occasionally nearly poroid, yellow, fading to cream-buff.
Stipe
Stipe up to 12 cm tall, 1.5-3.0 cm thick, stout, not distinct from the pileus, attachment variable, central or slightly eccentric, tapering downward, hollow to near the base; surface dry, colored like the hymenium, sometimes discoloring brown; flesh white, unchanging; veil absent.
Spores
Spores 10-14 x 5-7.5 µm, elliptical, wrinkled to warted, nonamyloid; ochraceous in mass.
Habitat
Solitary to gregarious in mixed hardwood/conifers woods; fruiting from late fall to early winter.
Edibility
Questionable. May cause gastrointestinal upsets in some persons.
Comments
This member of the chanterelle clan is characterized by an orange, scaly, funnel-shaped fruiting body and a yellow to cream-colored wrinkled hymenium. The shape is suggestive of the "true" chanterelle (Cantharellus cibarius), but the hollow core and scaly pileus easily distinguish it. Gomphus kauffmanii is a larger cousin, also with a scaly pileus, but is buff-brown in color. Another Gomphus species which occurs in our area is G. bonarii. It tends to fruit in cespitose clusters and has a buff to pale cinnamon-brown cap.
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