Craterellus cornucopioides (Fries) Persoon Horn of plenty
Cap: 22-80 mm. Stem: width 15-25 mm; length 25-80 mm.
Description:
Cap: funnel-shaped, membranous to leathery, but limp, dark brown or almost black in wet weather, but on drying becoming dull brown or sepia, slightly scaly and with irregularly wavy margin.
Stem: short, blackish and hollow.
Gills: absent, replaced by a smooth to irregularly wrinkled, ash-grey surface.
Flesh: sepia but drying out greyish ochre.
Spore-print: cream-colour.
Spores: medium sized, hyaline under the microscope, ellipsoid, smooth, 10-11 × 6-7 µm in size and not blueing in solutions containing iodine.
Marginal and facial cystidia: absent.