Chanterelle – tap, cock, crow's foot, dust foot, wart, fox, caterpillar, sticky, lepiecha, weasel, mole, gill
secondary value mushroom. It has a hat with a diameter 1 …7 cm, pale yellow to orange in color, funnel-shaped. Smooth surface, in older specimens sometimes wavy bending on the shore. Hat-colored gills, running down, grube, stringy, often interconnecting. The stem is usually slightly lighter than the cap or of the same color, widened at the top, full. Firm flesh, whitish, it is never infested with maggots. It creates a white and amethyst variety. It can also be gray. Mild flavor, in older specimens it looks like pepper, pleasant smell. Spore discharge whitish or yellowish.
It occurs in various forests, massively, common everywhere. Harvested all summer until late fall, from early June to October.
Chanterelle mushrooms are sometimes confused with the poisonous orange fox, the so-called. false tap, slightly smaller, with an orange or pink-orange hat and thin, dense, intense orange plaques.