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Key 4
Chantarelles
Is the fruiting body yellow, orange to red, at least
the gills?
Yes |
Is the fruiting body purple, lilac, gray to
blackish-brown?
Yes |
Is the fruiting body colored the same overall; cap
glabrous or nearly so? ...................
Yes |
Is the fruiting body not colored the same overall; cap
with small or recurved scales?
Yes |
Is the fruiting body orange,
yellowish, or nearly white?
Yes |
Is the fruiting body red to red-orange?
Yes |
Is the fruiting body very small? ..................
Yes |
Is the fruiting body medium to large?
Yes |
Is the fruiting body thin with short
discontinuous gills or without gills?
Yes |
Is the fruiting body fleshy with well-formed gills?
Yes |
Is the fruiting body nearly white with orange tints?
Yes |
Is the fruiting body orange? ......
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Yes |
You have a C. craterellus |
Is the cap funnel to trumpet shaped with large
recurved scales?
Yes |
Is the cap convex to depressed
in center, with squamules?
Yes |
Is the fruiting body 1.21" - 3"; fruiting
in spring?
Yes |
Is the fruiting body 2" to 6"; fruiting in
fall?
Yes |
You have a Gomphus banarii |
Are the gills low, blunt ridges, buff to yellow?
Yes |
Are the gills nearly with pores, deep yellow?
Yes |
You have a Gomphus floccosus |
You have a Gomphus kauffmanii |
Are the gills contorted, wrinkled, nearly absent,
orange?
Yes |
Are the gills blunt but well formed? ..............
Yes |
Is the cap dark brown; stalk yellow? ...................
Yes |
Is the cap yellowish-brown; stalk grayish-orange?
Yes |
You have a C.
infundibuliformis |
You have a C. tubaeformis |
Is it not cespitose; grows in deep moss; small cap? ...................
Yes |
Is it in cespitose clusters; grows in the ground;
large caps?
Yes |
Are the gills absent; ashy-gray to blackish?
Yes |
Are the gills present, thick, fleshy; purple fruiting
body?
Yes |
You have a Polyzellus
mutiplex |
You have a Gomphus clavatus |
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