Tropical chanterelle

What it is

Tropical chanterelle is the English name the catalogue gives to Cantharellus guyanensis, a chanterelle-type fungus. The species is ground-dwelling and ectomycorrhizal, meaning it grows in association with tree roots.

The species was first described from French Guiana in 1854. Outside the Cerrado, the Brazilian records checked are concentrated in Amazon forests and in Atlantic Forest restinga areas. The catalogue lists its ecology as Amazon and Atlantic rainforest and Caatinga.

Food records in Brazil

A 2026 study by Silveira-Silva and colleagues, published in Current Microbiology, reports the species from the Cerrado for the first time, at a site in Brasília. The authors describe it as an alternative food resource for that region, and the study's title calls it a gourmet mushroom in the Brazilian Cerrado.

A Brazilian mycological database notes that the species is considered edible but is not consumed by local communities, and that it could be commercialized. The sources checked do not record a traditional preparation or a regional name.

Conservation status

The IUCN Red List assessed the species as Least Concern in 2024, according to the IUCN entry checked for this page. Conservation status does not establish whether the species is safe to eat.

Food use and safety

The catalogue states that documented occurrence and consumption do not establish a standardized food-safety assessment. This page does not provide one, and it gives no preparation method and no cooking detail.

Catalogue inclusion is not an edibility verdict. Nothing on this page is an identification guide, and identification of Cantharellus species by appearance alone is not established by these sources.