Summary:
Also listed in Veined category. Cantharellus subalbidus is distinguished by moderate size, whitish cap, whitish forked thick-edged ridges decurrent on stem, bruising reaction to orange or orange-brown. It is fairly common in the Pacific Northwest, especially coastally.

Cap:
4-15cm across, flat to broadly depressed with wavy or lobed margin; dull whitish, bruising yellowish orange to orange-brown; dry or moist but not viscid, smooth but may have small scales in age, (Arora), up to 14cm across; cream to ivory, darkening to pale buff when old or water-soaked, entire mushroom becoming dark orange or rust color when very dry, (Pilz), 5-10(14)cm across, at first flat or with downcurved margin, soon margin elevated to somewhat recurved and becoming irregularly lobed or wavy, when old broadly depressed to somewhat funnel-shaped and quite irregular in shape; "white to whitish over all, becoming pallid buff when water-soaked and sordid yellow where handled"; felty-fibrillose to subtomentose, smooth or in age areolate-scaly, typically dry and unpolished, often very uneven, (Smith)

Flesh:
thick, firm; white, (Arora), firm, dense; "cream colored and slowly staining dull yellow when handled", (Pilz), thick, firm, fibrous; white with a tendency to stain yellow where bruised; in stem fibrous and white, (Smith)

Gills:
decurrent, well-spaced, thick, shallow, blunt, fold-like, usually forking or interveined; dull white or pinkish-tinged, often staining yellowish to orange when old or where bruised, (Arora), with generally well separated and long ridges, extending from the cap well down the stem, (Pilz), long-decurrent, close and narrow, edges obtuse and even, variously forked or anastomosing and strongly veined; "white to grayish white but becoming cream-colored and staining yellow to orange when bruised", (Smith)

Stem:
2-7cm x 1-5cm, central or off-center, equal or narrowing downward, solid, firm; dull whitish, discoloring yellowish orange to orange-brown when old or where bruised; smooth, (Arora), 2-4(5)cm x 1-3cm at base, flaring upward and indistinct from cap (gills decurrent almost to base), solid; white, staining yellow to orange when bruised, finally discoloring to sordid brown; unpolished, (Smith)

Odor:
pleasant, in fresh specimens reminiscent of apricot (contrary to original description by Smith & Morse), (Pilz), mild or slightly fragrant (Arora), not distinctive (Smith), mild (Miller)

Taste:
usually peppery when raw (Pilz), not distinctive (Smith), pleasant (Miller)

Microscopic spores:
spores 7-9 x 5-5.5 microns, elliptic, smooth, inamyloid, (Arora), spores 7-9 x 5-5.5 microns, elliptic to broadly elliptic, smooth, inamyloid; basidia 4-spored to 6-spored, 62-80 x 8.5-10 microns, narrowly clavate, colorless in KOH but filled with many small oil globules; cystidia not seen; gill trama regularly with clamp connections, (Smith), clamp connections absent, (Castellano), clamp connections abundant in all tissues (Pilz)

Spore deposit:
white (Arora, Pilz, Smith)

Notes:
It is found at least BC, WA, OR, (Pilz), CA (Desjardin), and ID (Arora).

EDIBILITY

choice (Arora)

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Peziza adae Cooke
Peziza odorata Peck