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Cinnabar chanterelles in pine litter
cf. Cantharellus cinnabarinus Genus
Angles captured. Eight field frames of a scattered troop with the height gauge, one fruitbody held for the underside. The bench print attempt is recorded in Notes rather than the gallery.
Morphology
Small trumpets 1–2.5 cm, flamingo-orange to cinnabar throughout, wavy-margined, shallowly vase-shaped. Underside with blunt shallow ridges rather than true gills, running down the stipe. Flesh thin, concolorous.
Habitat & substrate
Pine needle litter along the trail edge, scattered over several metres, terrestrial.
Lookalikes & what rules them out
A small all-cinnabar trumpet with blunt decurrent ridges is Cantharellus cinnabarinus territory. The orange lookalikes separate on the underside: Hygrocybe has true waxy gills, and the jack-o'-lantern is a larger, clustered, wood-dwelling fungus with crowded sharp gills.
To confirm this identification
A print. The bench attempt failed honestly — see Notes — so the ridge character and colour carry the record for now; the expected print is pale pinkish cream.
Notes
No usable print was obtained. The collected fruitbody shrank to almost nothing overnight and left only unreadable flecks on both cards. Recorded as a failed attempt rather than evidence: tiny chanterelles carry little water and a sparse hymenium, and often dry before they drop. A damp-chamber overnight (cap under a cup with a moist towel) is the fix for the next one.
Found at Walker Pond Rd area, Sturbridge, MA on Thursday, 20 August 2026 at 12:35. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.
