Nut Disco

Nut Disco - Hymenoscyphus fructigenus

Description

A tiny cream, yellowish or buff-coloured cup or disc-shaped fungus associated with decaying acorn cups.  It can have long or short stalks and usually grows in clusters.   

This species or a related species in a species aggregate has also occasionally recorded on beech mast in Leicestershire.

Identification difficulty
Recording advice

Photograph on host plant; note substrate and associated plant species.  

Habitat

On acorns, possibly other nuts?

When to see it

Autumn.

Further Information

This may be an aggregate of species; we are not sure whether the specimens on beech mast or hazel nuts are now regarded as separate species. (see Laessoe & Petersen, 2019)

Leicestershire & Rutland Map

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Additional images

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