How to find black trumpet mushrooms, Craterellus fallax + flame chanterelles, Craterellus ignicolor

In this video, I describe how to find and identify black trumpet mushrooms that grow in the eastern United States, Craterellus fallax. Craterellus fallax is a tasty mushroom with a fruity, earthy flavor and nice texture. Black trumpets grow in association with hardwoods throughout the summer and fall, often in the same oak and beech groves that are my favorite places to go mushroom hunting.
The trouble with trumpets - if you can consider anything related to these delightful mushrooms as troublesome - is how stinking hard they are to see. Black trumpets are the incognito tab of the mushroom world. They look like curled leaves. Or tiny holes. Or shadows of mouse turds. Fortunately, they come back in the same spot year after year, and individual patches are tightly clustered enough that seeing one means it's worthwhile to hit the deck and look around the immediate vicinity.
I also share how to identify a related edible mushroom, Craterellus ignicolor. Commonly called the flame chanterelle, Craterellus ignicolor is a hollow little mushroom with a nifty hole in the top (the crater in "Craterellus"). Brightly colored and sporting false gills like larger varieties of chanterelles, Craterellus ignicolor is a surely worth mentioning in any discussion of eye-catching fungi.
Learn more about why I'm a fan of Craterellus fallax and Craterellus ignicolor, despite the challenges of finding them in the first place.
• How to find black trum...

[@KennyP88]

What fun! I have two black trumpet areas right next door, I'll be watching carefully next year.

[@jamesalanstephensmith7930]

Well done!

[@seangrey3505]

Some of the best advice for finding these hands down. The part about hitting the deck Is the most important...the wife and I once we spot one we stop and smoke a joint and we spot so many more and we kind of.move spot to spot like that in circles around the first spot I would even mark trees with survey tape around the area in a large triangle instead of directly over the flushes incase other foragers where in the area they weren't put on the exact spot.

[@Burkwood]

Another awesome video. You make a subject on my periphery of interest much more fun and easy to learn about :) Thanks for another one! Dave

[@annamchugh5381]

Thank you so very much!

[@wildedibles819]

I find it fascinating how some blend in exactly like the leaves

[@adastraperporci8829]

THANKS FOR THE VIDEO!!

[@BrandonDickenson35]

Black trumpets are my favorite thus far, but I've only been foraging since last fall. Very versatile as well (so long as you don't want to saute them too "earthy" for that). I like to dry them and then powder them so I can sprinkle them out of a shaker. They see almost as much use as salt and pepper in my home

[@hungryplant3849]

Great video !!

[@annamchugh5381]

thank you so much!

[@johnwieczorek8744]

Wonderful! BTs are next on my hunting list.

[@annamchugh5381]

they're pretty delicious. they're also one of those mushrooms that makes you feel really triumphant because they're not easy to find!

[@diannaparrott2623]

Have not found one yet but looking forward to next year

[@hollycrumpler2676]

Love your enthusiasm! Hopefully I will find some of these on my hike today! Thank you.

[@annamchugh5381]

best of luck!

[@BrandonDickenson35]

Also here in central Georgia, everywhere I've found b.trumpets, I also find red chanterelles and or corals within a stones throw. Maybe it's just been coincidence since I'm a noob but when I see any of those I slow way down

[@DJdebbin7]

I found a bunch of those neoflavus last early summer

[@fatfreddyscat5173]

Another great vid. Thanks much for your efforts!! d:^)

[@chrisblevins755]

I've not found any trumpets this fall, I found a few large patches of smaller one early in the summer.

[@annamchugh5381]

They’re so fickle! Some years, the same spot will fruit in June and October. Or maybe even in August too, just to fuck around with us. And then other times….nada

[@tinsoffish1810]

i kinnnda have some envy right now😐

[@tinsoffish1810]

😐☝..i volunteer to be tripod!