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Black Trumpet (Craterellus fallax) Black, funnel-shaped mushrooms with a smooth-veined fertile surface (the outer surface). Spores were white, smooth, and elliptical under a microscope. Growing under old oak trees, pushing through moss, at the top of a ridge in a dense mixed hardwood/coniferous forest in NW Georgia Gordon County, US.<br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/60634/black_trumpet_craterellus_fallax.html" title="Black Trumpet (Craterellus fallax)"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/3231/60634_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=rPcW6o8b8v7oV%2BjukaN8H7qlegk%3D" width="104" height="152" alt="Black Trumpet (Craterellus fallax) Black, funnel-shaped mushrooms with a smooth-veined fertile surface (the outer surface). Spores were white, smooth, and elliptical under a microscope. Growing under old oak trees, pushing through moss, at the top of a ridge in a dense mixed hardwood/coniferous forest in NW Georgia Gordon County, US.<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/60633/black_trumpet_craterellus_fallax.html Craterellus fallax,Geotagged,Spring,United States" /></a></figure> Craterellus fallax,Geotagged,Spring,United States Click/tap to enlarge

Black Trumpet (Craterellus fallax)

Black, funnel-shaped mushrooms with a smooth-veined fertile surface (the outer surface). Spores were white, smooth, and elliptical under a microscope. Growing under old oak trees, pushing through moss, at the top of a ridge in a dense mixed hardwood/coniferous forest in NW Georgia Gordon County, US.

Black Trumpet (Craterellus fallax) Black, funnel-shaped mushrooms with a smooth-veined fertile surface (the outer surface). Spores were white, smooth, and elliptical under a microscope. Growing under old oak trees, pushing through moss, at the top of a ridge in a dense mixed hardwood/coniferous forest in NW Georgia Gordon County, US.<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/60633/black_trumpet_craterellus_fallax.html Craterellus fallax,Geotagged,Spring,United States

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The Black Trumpets

Craterellus fallax is a species of "black trumpets" that occurs in Eastern North America where it replaces the European taxon Craterellus cornucopioides. C. fallax can also be separated by its yellow-orange spore print, where Craterellus cornucopioides has a white spore print.

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Similar species: Cantharellales
Species identified by Flown Kimmerling
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Uploaded May 27, 2018. Captured May 26, 2018 01:56 in 255 Campbell Rd SE, Calhoun, GA 30701, USA.
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  • Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
  • f/2.8
  • 1/60s
  • ISO400
  • 60mm