[2] Craterellus cinereus are greyish-black chanterelle mushrooms with thin, dark grey flesh that fades when dry.

Smooth to lightly velvety in texture sometimes with a white woolly base.

[3] As a mycorrhizal species it grows on soil with leaf litter in broad-leaves woods and is usually found in small groups and may be trooping.

Can be used similarly to black trumpets (Craterellus cornucopioides) but with a milder taste.

[4] Possible lookalikes include Craterellus cornucopioides, Pseudocraterellus undulatus and Faerberia carbonaria, all of which are edible.