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| synonyms: Pézize écarlate, Scarlet Elf Cup, Scharlachroter Kelchbecherling |
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| location: North America, Europe |
| edibility: Edible |
| fungus colour: Red or redish or pink |
| normal size: Less than 5cm |
| cap type: Cup shaped |
| stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent |
| flesh: Flesh granular or brittle |
| spore colour: White, cream or yellowish |
| habitat: Grows on wood |
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Sarcoscypha coccinea (Fr.) Lamb syn. Peziza coccinea Fr. Cup 1–5cm across, cup-shaped, the margin becoming tattered as it expands, attached to substrate by a short stalk, inner surface bright scarlet, outer whitish and covered in white matted tufted hairs. Asci 400 x 16µ, not blued by iodine. Spores cylindric-ellipsoid containing several small oil droplets, 24–32 x 12–14µ. Habitat gregarious, on dead wood. Season early winter to early spring. Frequent especially in the West. Edible. Distribution, America and Europe.
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Ian Plant (United Kingdom) - 17 February 2013
Walk along the Rochdale canal near Elland
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Dejan Stojanovic (Yugoslavia) - 03 February 2013
Sarcoscypha coccinea.
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Saso Bozinovski (Macedonia) - 03 February 2013
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Jeffrey Reichman (United States) - 01 April 2012
Found April 1st in sugar-maple woods, Upstate NY.
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Marjan Kustera (Yugoslavia) - 06 April 2011
Found and photo taken
by Marjan Kustera,Serbia,Vranje district
06.IV.2011.
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Slobodan Nikolic (Yugoslavia) - 14 March 2010
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Mirosław Wantoch-Rekowski (Poland) - 02 January 2009
Sarcoscypha austriaca.2 February 2008 on the fruiting wood liœciastym.Trójmiejski Valley National Park Gdañsk Samborowo
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