A couple of years ago in the Outwoods I found Cratellus cornucopoides, and thought it was the most magnificent fungi I'd ever seen. Large trumpets that folded in on each other, black and foreboding, like a witch's cauldron. I've been back a few times since to the very spot, but there has been nothing to see.
This year, just a about 100m away but in Jubilee Woods, I thought I had come across it again! It was not quite as big, and not quite as funnel-like, but I could have thought it was the Black Trumpet or tromoette de morte as the cornucopoides is known. When I took it home to dissect I realised it was different; it had very marked (and false) Gill plates, that literally just fell on in my hand.
Chanterelles don't have this, and on further investigation I found that I had the Ashen chanterelle, which has recently moved genus.
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