Brown Cup
Brown Cup - Rutstroemia firma
Description
A relatively large (up to 1.5 cm) yellowish-brown Rutstroemia, with a short stalk that darkens at the base. Initially cup-shaped, it expands and flattens. The outside of the cup is the same colour as inside, and the margin of the cup is slightly crenulate.
Recording advice
Photograph on host plant; note substrate and associated plant species.
Habitat
On dead and rotting wood, often oak, but also other deciduous trees
When to see it
Autumn to early winter.
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