ID help please

[serendipity]

could any of you good fungus people tell me what this is please ?

[CapAndBracket]

It looks like a cup fungi, one of the Peziza species, an indication of size and substrate would help.

Cheers J.P.

[mykonik]

Originally Posted by serendipity

could any of you good fungus people tell me what this is please ?

Hi !

This is a 'cup fungus' (ascomycete) in the genus Peziza - but without microscopic details that is as far as you will get - would be interesting to know what it is growing on (looks like wood ?) but even then one is on dodgy ground without the microscopic examination !

Nick

[serendipity]

It was growing on the burnt stump of what i think may have been ash!

[serendipity]

sorry .and the larger cups were maybe 3 or 4 cm !

[mykonik]

Originally Posted by serendipity

It was growing on the burnt stump of what i think may have been ash!

Interesting ! - in that case it probably can be identified - the 'scurfy' outside of the cups and the habitat on burnt substrate would tend to suggest that it is probably Peziza echinospora which is a common burnt ground (or wood) taxon.

But as I said previously, that is only a tentative diagnosis since without the microscopy to look at the spores (which are the diagnostic feature) one can never be totally sure !

Nick

[serendipity]

Thanks again. I may get the finer points of this ID lark one day ! maybe.