Chanterelle T-Shirt, Bay, front

Chanterelle T-Shirt

Bay / S
$42.00
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Chanterelle T-Shirt, Bay, front

Chanterelle T-Shirt

$42.00
Color
Size
Size & fit

Comfort Colors 1717. Relaxed fit, true to size; size down for a closer fit.

SizeChest width (in)Length (in)
S18 ¼26 ⅝
M20 ¼28
L2229 ⅜
XL2430 ¾
2XL2631 ⅝
3XL27 ¾32 ½
4XL29 ¾33 ½

Measured flat: chest across, 1 in below the armholes; length from the high shoulder. Compare with a T-shirt you own and like.

Each shirt is garment-dyed after it is sewn, so the colour can vary slightly from shirt to shirt.

Golden funnels with forked ridges running down the stem.

For a century, Americans had the name wrong. Read the field notes ↓

The shirt
  • Comfort Colors 1717: heavyweight 100% ring-spun cotton, garment-dyed and pre-shrunk.
  • The full plate on the back; a detail from it on the left chest.
  • Wash cold, inside out; tumble dry low. Don't iron over the print.
Shipping & production

Each shirt is printed for you after you order. Most orders are printed and on their way within 2–5 business days; delivery time depends on the shipping method you choose at checkout. Shipping is shown at checkout before you pay.

Shipping & Production

Returns

If your shirt arrives damaged, misprinted or defective, contact us within 30 days of delivery with a photo and we'll send a replacement or a refund. Because every shirt is printed to order, we can't accept returns or exchanges for size or a change of mind, so please check the size chart above before ordering.

Plate 034

From the book

Species
Cantharellus cibarius
As named in the book
Agaricus cantharellus.
Artist
James Sowerby
Book
Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms, pl. 46, 1797–1815

Then and now

North American golden chanterelles have since been split into several species.

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Field notes

For a century, Americans had the name wrong.

Sowerby painted these chanterelles in London around 1800: golden funnels with wavy rims, and underneath, not true gills but blunt, forked ridges running down the stem. Today his species is Cantharellus cibarius, the golden chanterelle of European forests, prized for a faint scent of apricots.

For most of the twentieth century, American field guides used the same name for the golden chanterelles of North American woods. They looked the same and smelled the same, so they must be the same.

They weren't. When mycologists began reading chanterelle DNA, it turned out C. cibarius is a European species that doesn't grow in North America at all. In 2013 a single study described three new species, all previously filed under cibarius, from one plot of oak woods in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Natural history is never quite finished.

LINNAEUS shares natural history, not foraging advice.

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