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yellowfoot
The yellowfoot is a small funnel-shaped mushroom of damp mossy conifer woods with a brown wavy cap, blunt forking ridges rather than gills, and a hollow yellow stem that gives it the name. It fruits very late in the season, often after the first frosts, and it grows in troops among moss where it is extremely easy to walk past.
Etymology
The English name is for the stem. It also goes by winter chanterelle and funnel chanterelle, and it belongs to the same genus as the black trumpet. The Latin species name means trumpet-shaped, and the whole group is characterized by having wrinkles in the flesh where a true gilled mushroom has blades.
Notes
It is one of the last good mushrooms of the year in northern woods and one of the most abundant where it occurs, since a single patch of moss can carry hundreds. Like the other members of its genus, it grows in partnership with tree roots and cannot be cultivated, so every one is found. It dries well and keeps its flavor, as does the black trumpet.