Horn of plenty

Craterellus cornucopioides

Русское название: Вороночник рожковидный

A dark funnel-shaped fungus widely known in culinary settings. It can be difficult to notice among leaf litter. Even a visually memorable shape does not establish that a particular wild find is safe to consume.

✳ Scientific names are used to reduce confusion between local names.

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Safety information

Never decide to eat a wild mushroom from a photograph or online description. A mistake can be fatal. For mushroom ingestion or suspected poisoning, contact emergency medical services or a poison centre immediately, even if symptoms have not appeared.

Irish Poisons Centre mushroom safety ↗

◎Distribution

European and other temperate woodland

♧Habitat

Moist deciduous woodland, often near oak or beech

✺Identification limits

Images and brief descriptions are for learning, not for reliably identifying a specimen. Take particular care with poisonous plants and mushrooms.

Further reading and image creditsCraterellus cornucopioides — Wikipedia overview ↗Photo, author and license — Wikimedia Commons ↗

Identification is never guaranteed by a photo. Scientific names are used to reduce confusion between local names.

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