Mushroom identification: Golden yellow or tricolor coral?
Hello, I found some coral mushrooms in the forest today (see pictures). The mushrooms are a beautiful yellow, like a chanterelle. I suspect they're a golden yellow coral, but I'd still like to know if they might be a tricolor coral or another poisonous species, to avoid any potential diarrhea 😉
A few weeks ago, I found a small, golden-yellow coral mushroom in the same spot and ate it, and I had no symptoms afterward. I'm therefore assuming it's the same, presumably edible species. But could the lack of symptoms simply be due to the fact that it was so small? (Approximately golf ball-sized)
Color comparison with chanterelle.
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Hello, Mourlie,
without giving you a guarantee this looks more similar to a gold-yellow coral. Whether it comes to poisoning has nothing to do with the size of a mushroom.
Please compare:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreifarbene_Koralle
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldgelbe_Koralle
Greeting
G.H.
It can be that the dose received was simply too low. Determining mushrooms using photos is such a thing, with corals very special… But it is generally advised that corals should be dispensed with for food, because many species resemble each other so that they can often only be delimited without doubt by microscopic examination.