The species is quite common in the state, and is found from June to September.
Cantharellus aurantiacus. Fr.
False Chantarelle.
Photo by C. G. Lloyd.
Figure 159.—Cantharellus aurantiacus. One-third natural size. Caps orange-yellow. Gills yellow and forked.
Aurantiacus means orange-yellow. The pileus is fleshy, soft, depressed, downy, the margin strongly incurved when young, in mature plants it is wavy or lobed; color dull yellowish, usually brownish.
The gills are crowded, straight, dark-orange, branched, with a regular bifurcation.
The stem is lighter in color than the pileus, solid at first, spongy, stuffed, hollow, unequal, tapering upward, and somewhat curved.