Black trumpet mushrooms

Description:

Black Trumpets. An edible mushroom. It can also be known as the horn of plenty, black chanterelle, black trumpet, or trumpet of the dead. The fruiting body does not have a separation into stalk and cap, but is shaped like a funnel expanded at the top. This fungus is found in woods in North America, Europe, Japan and Korea. Mainly it grows under beech, oak or other broad-leaved trees, especially in moss in moist spots on heavy calcareous soil. The mushroom is usually almost black, and it is hard to find because of its dark colour, which easily blends in with the leaf litter on the forest floor.

Habitat:

There were several of these mushrooms around the pine nut tree in the yard. There has been a lot of heavy rain recently and the ground is very moist and this may explain them growing here because had not seen any before.