Scarlet Elf Cup: 21 February 2019
A magnificent Scarlet Elf Cup … first time seen, so I’m chuffed. A winter/early spring fruiting fungus, though small it’s easily seen. (Bristly bug thrown in for free!)
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I’d like to see one of these!
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I was … amazed. It’s been quite a season for new fungi discoveries. But this late in the season I didn’t expect to find anything other than shriveling brackets. But ,,, Wow! It was worth sinking shoe-deep into mud to get the pic. Though it’s as well I took a second shot. The first one was blurred. I must have been sinking into the mud that formed like a defensive swamp around it.
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Wow. Beautiful.
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I thank you. Though I only took the photo. Our evolving universe produced the beauty. 🙂
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It was beautifully capture indeed! ☺️
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I thank you. 🙂
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What the heck is a fruiting fungus?
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Most fungi tend to be perenniels. Only we don’t see them cos their main body is like a mat beneath ground or buried into the wood. But in season it ‘fruits’, meaning it puts forth the fungi-looking thing, which, now above ground, produces spores which to the fungus equates to seeds and fruit. Hence its fruiting body.
Yea, clear as mud you’re gonna say. 🙂
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So easy to see . . . and yet if it had been covered over by leaves blown about by the wind? Serendipitous synchronicity: the fungus and the photographer, the cup and the Crispina, the redhead and the redhead.
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My second Bixby-induced laugh, and both on a Sunday. Yea, I hadn’t even registered the redhead angle. And yes, serendiptitous since I only ventured along that slippery, anhk;e-deep in mud path to check out the swan i’d seen there twice before. Last year he/she was an immature. I was hoping he/she might have found a mate. Instead, I was invited to tea by an elf. 🙂
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Wow! Talk about a “Stop sign”
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Indeed. I’m still batting my eyes, still saying ‘Bloody ‘ell’ and ‘gosh!’.
A beauty, isn’t it. I think that’s a once in a lifetime. If for no other reason than it’s rare for me to venture far from the beaten track this time of year. Memories of lost wellies and squelching shoes. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Absolutely gorgeous!
🙂🙂🙂
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I thank you. 🙂
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tx for sharing – I’d never seen one before – lovely!
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I do try to find the unusual for these Sunday Fungi posts; not always possible. Also, while everyone knows the common mushroom colours and shapes, few people nother to look at those that hide beneath their feet. And so here I bring them into easier view. 🙂
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Wow, that *is* magnificent! What a striking pop of color! I can see why it has such an otherworldly name. I didn’t even notice the bug until you mentioned it and I went back and looked again.
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I thank you, Joy, I didin’t notice the bug either, till I was processing on laptop. Then, whoah, that’s that? I think it’s a caterpillar, I’m sure if is. But very early to be chomping its way through the marsh vegation (this was exceptionally boggy land.)
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