SCIENTIFIC NAME: CRATERELLUS CORNUCOPIODES
VERNACULAR NAME: HORN OF PLENTY
Fig 1
FRUIT BODY 5 - 15cm funnel-shaped with an ash-grey spore bearing outer surface and a brown/black scurfy inner surface. Becomes more irregularly wavy at the margins and also dries paler.
GILLS/PORES N/A
FLESH Thin and leathery.
SPORES White and elliptical.
HABITAT In clusters in leaf litter beneath deciduous trees.
SEASON Occasional.  Summer to late autumn.
EDIBILITY Edible when young. a

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