Identifying Your Chanterelles
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Cerulean Black Trumpet
Craterellus caeruleofuscus
Frequency
Infrequent
Habitat
This chanterelle fruits among the mosses of deciduous or coniferous forests.
Fruit body
This rare chanterelle is a close cousin of the Black Trumpet. Unlike the latter, its fruiting surface is clearly ridged and these ridges are cross-veined.
Cap
1.5-7 cm in diameter, funnel-shaped, with smooth to wrinkled internal surface, dark brown then pale grayish brown.
Margin
Wavy margin; a thin pale line surrounds the cap.
Hymenium surface
Fruiting surface wrinkled, interveined and longly decurrent, pale gray to dark gray or bluish gray, then pale grayish brown.
Stalk
2-7 cm high by 0.3-3 cm in diameter, distinct from the cap, hollow, attenuated towards the base.
Flesh
Its grayish-colored flesh is very thin, brittle to fibrous.
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Wrinkles or folds are present from the young age of fruitbodies.
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