Horn of Plenty
(Black Trumpet, or Trumpet of Death)
Description
Fruit-body trumpet-shaped to depressed funnel-shaped. Cap Ø 2-8 cm, depressed, radially striped-grooved, with a curled, undulate margin, greyish brown to black. Lower surface with irregularly branched, close ribs and ridges, pruinose, matt, grey to grey-brown or grey-black.
Stem 3-10 cm long, hollow, grey-brown to black. Flesh fibrous, grey. Smell pleasant. Taste mild.
Spore-print colour white.
Edible.
Occurrence
Near Beech and Quercus robur on poor sandy or loamy soils. Often in tufts of groups.
Forming ectomycorrhiza.