Craterellus cornucopioides    (L.:Fr.) Pers. 

common name(s) : Horn Of Plenty, Horn of Plenty, Trompette Des Morts, Trumpet of the Dead 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Cantharellales/Cantharellaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Aphyllophoromycetideae  

synonyms: Cantharellus cornucopioides 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Agaricus cinereus, Craterella nigrescens, Merulius pezizoides, Helvella punctata)  

edibility : edible, good

photo gallery of Craterellus cornucopioides
photo gallery of Craterellus cornucopioides potential confusions with Craterellus cornucopioides toxicity of Craterellus cornucopioides genus Craterellus  

The cap is deeply funnel-shaped or horn-shaped, with a thin and wavy margin, black, then grey-brown in dry weather, with a hollow and very short stem.

The flesh is greyish to black, thin, elastic; its taste is mild; the odour is faint, pleasant, fruity.

The fertile surface is smooth to slightly wrinkled, ash grey. The spore print is white.

It grows on wood or on the ground, in damp deciduous woods, in leaf litter in large troops, also sometimes with conifers, on a rather loamy, calcareous soil, mostly with beech and oaks, also with hazel, chestnut trees, pine, spruce, hornbeam, ash.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 7 cm (between 2 and 15 cm)
  total height approximately 7 cm (between 2 and 12 cm)
  width of stem approximately 1.5 mm (between 0.7 and 2.2 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : deep grey-black horn-shape; smooth fertile surface

Craterellus cornucopioides is infrequent and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Craterellus cornucopioides in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Craterellus cornucopioides in the forest of Rambouillet



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