Horn of Plenty / Black Trumpet

Craterellus cornucopioides

Deciduous and mixed forests with oak, hornbeam, hazel. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting body funnel-, trumpet- or horn-shaped, with a deep hollow reaching right down to the base of the stem, 5—12 cm tall, 3—8 (10) cm wide in the upper part. The inside of the fruiting body is dark brown, brownish-black, rough, scaly, elastic, the margins irregularly distorted. The hymenophore, on the outside of the fruiting body, is smooth or slightly folded, blackish-grey, ash-coloured, with a greyish-bluish bloom. Flesh pleasant in taste. Characteristic features: greyish-bluish-black fruiting bodies with a brown tinge. Sometimes grows in sizeable groups. Edible, not rare, praised in German literature.