It is generally labeled poisonous, but some good authorities say it is wholesome. I have never eaten it further than in its raw state. It is easily distinguished from the edible species by its dull orange cap and its orange gills, which are thinner and closer and more regularly forked than those of the Edible Chantarelle. It grows in woods and open places. Found from July to September.
Cantharellus floccosus. Schw.
The Woolly Cantharellus. Edible.
Photo by C. G. Lloyd.
Plate XXIII. Figure 160.—Cantharellus floccosus.
Floccosus means floccose or woolly.
The pileus at the top is from one to two inches broad, fleshy, elongated funnel-form or trumpet-shape, floccose-squamose, ochraceous-yellow.
The gills are vein-like, close, much anastomosing above, long decurrent and subparallel below, concolorous.