Identifying Your Chanterelles
3.6
Fragrant Black Trumpet
Craterellus foetidus
Frequency
Rare
Habitat
On the floor of deciduous hardwood forests, this rare chanterelle is difficult to see because of its gray color, even though it is the largest species in the group.
Fruit body
This chanterelle is distinguished from other species by the gray color of all parts of its fruitbodies at maturity. When picked, we can distinguish an aromatic odor, fetid with age.
Cap
3-7 cm wide, the upper surface pale to dark grey.
Margin
Margin often blackening at maturity.
Hymenium surface
Bald toward the base, but veined or wrinkled with gill-like folds and cross-veined in the upper part, grey to lilac grey
Stalk
3 to 7 cm hight by 0.5 to 3 cm in diameter, without a clearly differentiated stem and cap. Growing gregariously or, more commonly, in fused clusters of 2-5 fruitbodies.
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Flesh
Thin, gray to grayish. Odor strong and sweet, taste not distinctive.
Basal Mycelium
Basal mycelium white.
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