18 October 2007 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Common Name Green Cups Fruiting Body Cup or disk shaped, smooth, blue green, attached to the substrate by a short stem, to about 1 cm across Flesh Concolorous, thin, brittle Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season All year Distribution Common Habitat On dead wood of deciduous trees Microscopic Features Spores spindle shaped, with 2 oil drops (6-10) x (1.5-2) µm2 Edibility Not edible Notes The host wood develops an attractive blue-green colour 
20 August 2005 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |