#pezizaceae

[mushroomgay]

Barnet, London, UK, April 2019

Peziza sp.

Pezizaceae is a family of 100s of cup fungi that are rarely identifiable without microscopic inspection. Most are small, grow on soil or rotten wood, and range from off-white to tan to orangey-brown to near-black. 

These little guys were especially cute, looking almost like a sea anemone with those uniform waves in the cup walls. Couldn’t hazard a reliable guess at a species, but P. vesiculosa, P. repanda, and P. arvernensis are all possibilities.

[onlyishtar]

Just a gastropod munchin' on some cup fungi. #gastropod #pezizaceae #pezizabadia #fungi #wildmushroom #aftertherain

[geopsych]

Cup fungus I saw in the woods the other day.

One of the many members of Pezizaceae, I’m guessing.

[wapiti3]

The Pezizaceae 

(commonly referred to as cup fungi) are a family of fungi in the Ascomycotawhich produce mushrooms that tends to grow in the shape of a "cup". Spores are formed on the inner surface of the fruit body (mushroom). The cup shape typically serves to focus raindrops into splashing spores out of the cup. Additionally, the curvature enables wind currents to blow the spores out in a different manner than in most agarics and boletes.

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source- Mushrooms Sept-Îles  by Raymond Boyer