21 October 2007 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Common Name Orange Cup Fungus Fruiting Body Disk or cup shaped, irregular, inner surface smooth, orange, underside orange with a scurfy whitish bloom, to about 10 cm across Flesh Whitish, thin, brittle Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Common Habitat On bare soil and in grass Microscopic Features Spores elliptical, 2 droplets, decorated with a coarse network (17-24) x (9-11) µm2 Edibility Edible Notes Could be confused with several species including Melastiza cornubiensis, as well as Sarcoscypha austriaca and S. coccinea which both grow on wood 
21 October 2007 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
22 October 2007 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |