6 November 2025 Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Common Name Orange cup fungus, orange peel 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 on soil in grass Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores elliptical, 2 droplets, decorated with a coarse network (17-24) x (9-11) µm2 Edibility Edible Notes This species could be confused with several other species including Melastiza cornubiensis, as well as Sarcoscypha austriaca and S. coccinea which grow on wood 
6 November 2025 Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Lactophenol Cotton Blue viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 6 November 2025 Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
31 October 2024 Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Lactophenol Cotton Blue viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 31 October 2024 Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
21 October 2007 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
21 October 2007 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
22 October 2007 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |