30 April 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Synonymns Sclerotinia tuberosa Common Name Anemone Cup Fruiting Body Cup shaped, flattening with age, upper surface smooth, sometimes wrinkled, yellow brown to brown, stem brown, long, rooting, attached to a buried sclerotia, to about 3 cm across Flesh Brown Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Spring Distribution Infrequent to rare Habitat On bare ground with wood anemone Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, smooth, 1 drop at each end (12-17) x (6-9) µm2 Edibility Unknown 
30 April 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
A cup and the associated sclerotia. 30 April 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Found and identified by Jonathan Need. 19 April 2010 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Found and identified by Jonathan Need. 19 April 2010 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Found and identified by Jonathan Need. 19 April 2010 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores viewed with a x100 oil immersion objective. 19 April 2010 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |