Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....

[slack ma girdle]

well its a peziza/aurantia for sure

 

Cheers Hama, that was quick off the mark, don't supose it has an English name ?

[David Humphries]

Common Grey Disco on Oak - Mollisia cinerea.............

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Cheers Hama, that was quick off the mark, don't supose it has an English name ?

 

look at davids post, the cups often lack english names bar the scarlet elf cup and green elf cup as far as im aware.

 

so can you answer davids question:thumbup:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Common Grey Disco on Oak - Mollisia cinerea.............

 

 

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oh david you now how to excite me!

 

great find

[David Humphries]

oh david you now how to excite me!

 

great find

 

 

Oh that was just a teaser.

 

Look what C stumbled upon today..........

 

 

 

Chlorociboria aeruginascens - The Green Elfcup

 

 

 

Been looking for the fruit bodies of this for a while.

 

fair bit of the green stained wood about.

But the fb's are pretty scarce.

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

lovely jubbly! now you monkey, time to go add a few to the directory alonfg with me sarcocypha coccinea:thumbup:

[Fungus]

something like the Orange Cup - Melastiza cornubiensis

 

Melastiza species have a distinctive blackish zone on the outside edge of their apothecia consisting of darker cells, so this definitely is a Peziza, which just as Melastiza species, cannot be identified without using a microscope and chemicals such as Melzer's reagens.

[David Humphries]

lovely jubbly! now you monkey, time to go add a few to the directory alonfg with me sarcocypha coccinea:thumbup:

 

 

 

I'll put them on me to do list

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Melastiza species have a distinctive blackish zone on the outside edge of their apothecia consisting of darker cells, so this definitely is a Peziza, which just as Melastiza species, cannot be identified without using a microscope and chemicals such as Melzer's reagens.

 

 

 

A clearer picture may have helped me with my 'guess'

 

But your additional info is as always very handy

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

Common Grey Disco on Oak - Mollisia cinerea............

 

Or one of the macroscopical look-a-likes of M. cinerea, which can not be distinguished from one another without using a microscope and specialised literature.