Family: Cantharellaceae

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Cantharellaceae includes some of the best tasting edible mushrooms over seas unfortunately in New Zealand this is not the case. These mycorrhizal fungi have in most cases vase-shaped or funnel-shaped fruiting body's, brightly coloured, sterile on one side (the cap) and with spore bearing surfaces on the other. These surfaces may be smooth, wrinkled, veined or primitively gilled.

Genus: Cantharellus

Cantharellus wellingtonensis

Cantharellus species ?

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