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False chanterelle

Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca · False chanterelles (Hygrophoropsidaceae)

Inedible
False chanterelle
📷 Stephan van Helden, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Inedible; may cause stomach upsets in sensitive people.

Recognise it safely – what matters

  1. Thin, crowded, forked gills (chanterelle: thick, low ridges running down the stem)
  2. Flesh soft and orange (chanterelle: firm, fibrous, whitish inside)
  3. Grows on needle litter and wood

Features

Cap
2–8 cm, orange to orange-brown, finely felty, soon funnel-shaped with an inrolled margin.
Underside
True, thin gills, crowded and repeatedly forked, bright orange.
Stem
Thin, same colour as the cap or darker.
Flesh
Soft, flexible, tinged orange.
Smell
Indistinct
Spore print
White to cream

Season

Habitat

Coniferous forests, on needle litter and rotting wood, often in groups.

Spruce, Pine

Risk of confusion

Chanterelle Edible species The classic mix-up. The true chanterelle has no gills but blunt ridges, and firm, whitish flesh.

If someone has eaten it

Nausea or diarrhoea in sensitive people.

Act immediately – even without symptoms:

  • Emergency number 112 if someone feels unwell.
  • Poison centre: Germany – area code of the nearest city with a poison centre + 19240 (e.g. Berlin 030 19240, Munich 089 19240) · Austria +43 1 406 43 43 · Switzerland 145.
  • Keep leftovers, trimmings or vomit – it helps with identification.

Never identify mushrooms by pictures or an app alone. When in doubt, ask a mushroom expert – and only pick what you know for sure.

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