Author:
Qjure
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-763.1_.15
Craterellus cornucopioides
English: Horn of plenty; Black chanterelle; Black trumpet; Trumpet of the dead.
German: Herbst trompete; Tote trompete; Totentrompete; Herbsttrompete; Toten-Trichterling.
Region: Europe, North America, Japan, Korea.
Habitat: mycorrhizal on copper beech, in woods, under beech, oak, other broad-leaved trees; in moss, moist spots; on heavy calcareous soil.
Use: edible mushroom.
Culture: Cornucopia, in Greek mythology, is the magnificent horn of the nymph Amalthea's goat, that filled itself with whatever meat or drink its owner requested. It is a symbol of plenty; growing mushrooms were seen as being played as trumpets by dead people under the ground.
Content: protein; carbohydrates, mannitol; fat, fatty acids, polyunsaturated variety; phenols, flavonoids; vitamin C.
Use: unattractive; edible, very good flavour, like black truffle notes, in terrine, soufflé, marinade, tajine, fricassée; excellent edible, fresh as well as dried.
Mycology
Distinctive: colour black; smooth undersurface.
Type: almost black; shaped like a funnel expanded at the top; 10, to 15 cm tall, 5 to 70 mm diameter; upper and inner surface is black or dark grey, rarely yellow; lower and outer fertile surface is a much lighter shade of grey, smooth, somewhat wrinkled; from June to November.
Spores: elliptical; 10 to 17, by 6 to 11 µm; basidia are two-spored.