Black chanterelle (Craterellus cornucopioides)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Incertae sedis (of uncertain position)
- Order: Cantharellales (Chanterella (Cantarella))
- Family: Cantharellaceae (Cantharellae)
- Genus: Craterellus (Craterellus)
- Type: Craterellus cornucopioides (Black Chanterelle)
- Funnel-shaped funnel
- Hornwort
- Funnel-shaped funnel
- Hornwort
This mushroom is also a relative of the real chanterelle. Although you can’t tell from the outside. Soot-colored mushroom, on the outside there are no folds characteristic of chanterelles.
Description:
The hat is 3-5 (8) cm in diameter, tubular (the indentation passes into a hollow stem), with a turned, lobed, uneven edge. Inside fibrous-wrinkled, brown-black or almost black, in dry weather brownish, gray-brown, outside coarsely folded, waxy, with a grayish or gray-purple bloom.
Leg 5-7 (10) cm long and about 1 cm in diameter, tubular, hollow, gray, narrowed towards the base, brownish or black-brown, hard.
Spore powder is white.
The pulp is thin, brittle, membranous, gray (black after boiling), odorless.
Spread:
The black chanterelle grows from July to the last ten days of September (massively from mid-August to mid-September) in deciduous and mixed forests, in humid places, near roads, in a group and in a colony, not often.
The similarity:
It differs from the convoluted funnel (Craterellus sinuosus) of gray color by a hollow leg, the cavity of which is a continuation of the funnel.