Fungi

Scarlet Elf Cup Sarcoscypha coccinea

Height up to 4cm

Width up to 5cm

This striking looking fungus with its bright red colour is almost impossible to miss. As its name suggests it is cup shaped, but tends to flatten with age.

Photograph by Rich Siebold

Photographed at Carnglaze Caverns

Dog Stinkhorn Mutinus caninus

Height up to 12cm

Stem Red to orange

Cap Orange covered by olive brown spore mass.

Distinctive fungi that spring up from white egg like structures. They are conspicuous by their strong unpleasant odour.

The smell attracts flies that land on the slimy spore mass. The slime covered spores stick to the flies which are then carried elsewhere.