The Wooly Chanterelle or Scaly Vase or False Chanterelle

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The woolly chanterelle is a symbiotic fungus that grows on the ground near the roots of host trees. It's commonly found in coniferous forests, but can also appear in mixed woods. They're more abundant in older stands of trees and places with more decomposed wood on the forest floor. The woolly chanterelle is found in: 

• Coniferous forests in North America, particularly the western states in late summer and autumn
• Coastal areas of BC, northwards into coastal Alaska, and southwards in the Cascades, and along the coast to central California

The woolly chanterelle grows solitary or in clusters, often in arcs in mixed coniferous forests, you will find it close to golden chanterelles and lactarius mushrooms

There’s a good reason this mushroom is also called the Scaly Vase.

- It grows in a vase or trumpet shape 

- It has false gills, like the chanterelle, that look like ridges or wrinkles on the underneath of the mushroom.The false gills extend down the entire stem, top to bottom .

- Wooly Chantereeles are orange, like chanterelles, too. However, chanterelles are usually more golden yellow than orange, while scaly vases are orange to pinkish.

-.A Wooly Chanterelle can be from 2 inches to half a foot, they get huge!!