Craterellus

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Craterellus

Craterellus is a genus of generally edible fungi similar to the closely related chanterelles

Cantharellus

Cantharellus is a genus with many popular edible mushrooms. It is a mycorrhizal edible fungus, meaning it forms symbiotic associations with plants, making it very challenging to agriculture....
, with some species recently reassigned to this genus. They are distinguished by their lack of gill-like structures on the underside of their caps.

Black chanterelle, also black trumpet, horn of plenty, or trumpet of the dead, are the common names for the edible mushroom Craterellus cornucopioides.

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Craterellus is a genus of generally edible fungi similar to the closely related chanterelles

Cantharellus

Cornucopia

The cornucopia is a symbol of food and abundance dating back to the 5th century BC, also referred to as horn of plenty, Horn of Amalthea, and harvest cone....
(kôr'nyko`pe?), in Greek mythology, referred to the magnificent horn of the goat (or goat of the nymph) Amalthea

Amalthea (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Amalthea or Amaltheia is the most often mentioned among foster-mothers of Zeus. Her name in Greek is clearly an epithet, signifying the presence of an earlier nurturing goddess, whom the Hellenes, whose myths we know, knew to be located in Crete, where Minoan civilizations may have called her a version of "Dikte"...
, that filled itself with whatever meat or drink its owner requested. It has become the symbol of plenty.

The mushroom is dark coloured, almost black and looks rather unattractive, but has a very good flavour. It is hard to find because of its dark color, which easily blends in with the leaf litter on the forest floor.

The yellowfoot or funnel chanterelle (Craterellus tubaeformis) is a yellowish-brown and trumpet-shaped chanterelle found in great numbers late in the mushroom season, thus earning the common name winter mushroom. The cap is convex and sometimes hollow down the middle, and because of this it is also known as funnel chanterelle. The gills are widely separated, and of lighter color than the cap. It grows on moss or rotten wood, is found mostly in spruce forests. It is an excellent food mushroom, especially fried

Frying

Frying is the cooking of food in oil or fat, a technique that originated in ancient Old_Kingdom around 2500BC. Chemically, oils and fats are the same, differing only in melting point, but the distinction is only made when needed....
or in soup

Soup

Soup is a food that is made by combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables in Stock or hot/boiling water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth....
s.

Both species are gathered commercially and, unlike Cantharellus
Cantharellus

Cantharellus is a genus with many popular edible mushrooms. It is a mycorrhizal edible fungus, meaning it forms symbiotic associations with plants, making it very challenging to agriculture....
, can be easily preserved by drying.

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by Robert Sasata, Healing-Mushrooms.net, March 2008.