Black Trumpets
Craterellus fallax A. H. Smith
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Synonyms
Craterellus cornucopioides (misapplied)
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Found scattered or in groups on ground in forests, easily overlooked.

Description

Fruiting body: Grayish-brown or blackish with darker radiating fibers or tiny scales; funnel-shaped, deeply depressed; margin inrolled, wavy in age. Fertile surface has a salmon-buff tone with decurrent shallow ridges. Stalk: Black or dark-brown, often hollow (J. Solem, pers. comm.).

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Craterellus fallax
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Cantharellales
Family: Cantharellaceae
Genus: Craterellus
Species:
C. fallax
Binomial name
Craterellus fallax
A.H. Sm.
Craterellus fallax
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Ridges on hymenium
Cap is infundibuliform
Hymenium is decurrent
Stipe is bare
Spore print is yellow-orange
Ecology is mycorrhizal
Edibility is choice

Craterellus fallax is a species of "black trumpets" that occurs in Eastern North America. With a number of lookalikes in the genus, it is edible but not substantial.

Description

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Craterellus fallax is grayish to blackish, skinny and 3–12 centimetres (1–4+1⁄2 in) tall. The inside is smooth and black when young, turning rough and gray with age. The flesh is brittle and grayish to blackish.[1]

The spore print is a pinkish yellow-orange.[1]

Similar species

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In western North America, C. fallax is replaced by C. calicornucopioides.[1]

Craterellus fallax may be synonymous with the European species C. cornucopioides, which produces a white spore print.[2]: 391 [3]

A number of other species in the genus are similar.[1]

Distribution and habitat

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The species occurs in Eastern North America.[1]

Ecology

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C. fallax is mycorrhizal, forming associations with Tsuga and Quercus species, among others.[4]

Uses

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It is a choice edible fungus,[5] although is not substantial.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Audubon (2023). Mushrooms of North America. Knopf. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-593-31998-7.
  2. ^ Dahlman, Mattias; Danell, Eric; Spatafora, Joseph W. (April 2000). "Molecular systematics of Craterellus: cladistic analysis of nuclear LSU rDNA sequence data" (PDF). Mycological Research. 104 (4): 388–394. doi:10.1017/S0953756299001380. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-08-04.
  3. ^ Kuo, M. (2003, June). The Cantharellus/Craterellus clade. Retrieved from the MushroomExpert.Com.
  4. ^ Matheny, Patrick; Austin, Emily; Birkebak, Joshua; Wolfenbarger, Aaron (July 2010). "Craterellus fallax, a Black Trumpet mushroom from eastern North America with a broad host range". Mycorrhiza. 20 (8): 569–575. doi:10.1007/s00572-010-0326-2. PMID 20602121. S2CID 22745958.
  5. ^ Phillips, Roger (2010). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. p. 248. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.
  6. ^ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 331. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.
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