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ASCOMYCOTA - This section contains the forms that are present in the fungi division Ascomycota

FACTS ON COMMON TOADSTOOL AND FUNGI NAME

Chlorosplenium aeruginascens [Green Wood Cup] : It produces green cups as well, but usually all that's seen is the wood stain which is prized in furniture                                                             making such as parquetry. I have doubts that my photo actually shows this form but until someone clarifies . . . .

Xylaria longipes [Dead Moll's Fingers] : A moll was a gangster's girlfriend, with nickname probably a light-hearted gender equality thing as it's a slimmer                                       version of X. polymorpha [Dead Man's Fingers]. Seemingly it's best using wood that's been infected by this for creating stringed instruments

Lycogala epidendrum [Wolf's Milk] is very similar to Lycogala terrestre so even though may call it L. epidendrum it's not necessarily correct

Sarcoscypha coccinea [Scarlet Elf Cup, Fairies Bath, Mossy Cup] : Said to have been used by North American tribes to stop bleeding

aleuria aurantiaca
ascocoryne sarcoides
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ALEURIA AURANTIA [Orange Peel Fungus]

Baldragon Woods near Clatto Reservoir

ASCOCORYNE SARCOIDES

[Purple Jelly Disc or Purple Jelly Drops]

ASCOTREMELLA FAGINEA

Gatehouse of Fleet, October 2018

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chlorosplenium aeruginascens
chlorosplenium aeruginascens

BISPORELLA CITRINA [Yellow Fairy Cups]

Left side see stalk on fungus - Castle Wood 2019

BULGARIA INQUINANS

[Black Bulgar]

Maybe CHLOROSPLENIUM AERUGINASCENS ?

[Green Wood Cup] showing stained wood only

coprobia granulata
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erysiphe alphitoides

COPROBIA GRANULATA

Cup Fungi on cow dung of all things - Dundee

DIPLOICIA CANESCENS

If this is correct have seen classed as lichen or fungi

DIATRYPE DISCIFORMIS [Beech Barkspot]

Pitkennedy Wood, October 28, 2019

erysiphe alphitoides
gyromitra dundee toadstools
gyromitra dundee toadstools

ERYSIPHE ALPHITOIDES [Powdery Mildew]

Fungal disease of oak tree leaves

GEOGLOSSUM COOKEIANUM

An Earth Tongue

GYROMITRA ESCULENTA [False Morel]

Poisonous spring fungi, 2017, Templeton Wood

Hymenoscyphus fructigenus
hypomyces chrysospermus white
tayside toadstools

HYMENOSCYPHUS FRUCTIGENUS

Tiny Cup Fungi with long stem on a beech 'mast'

White and yellow stage of HYPOMYCES CHRYSOSPERMUS [Bolete Eater]

A fungal disease of Boletus mushrooms. Same Bolete in Reres Park over a 7-day period

hypoxylon fragiforme
hypox fragiforme
hypoxylon fragiforme

HYPOXYLON FRAGIFORME [Red Cushion Hypoxylon]

Left photo at Templeton Wood, Dundee; right photo at Maules Wood, Brechin, in 2019

HYPOXYLON MULTIFORME

on a birch tree stump

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HYPOXYLON NUMMULARIUM

[Beech Tarcrust]

Also seen at other sites as

BISCOGNIAUXIA NUMMULARIA

so this may have been renamed

Found on December 12, 2019, 

at Castle Wood, Brechin

xylaria hypoxylon close up
hypoxylon fragiforme

KRETZSCHMARIA DEUSTA [Brittle Cinder]

May 7, 2018, Templeton Woods

LYCOGALA EPIDENDRUM or L. TERRESTRE

[Wolf's Milk]. A slime mould

Microsphaera alni
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MICROSPHAERA ALNI

Mildew disease of maple and sycamore leaves

MORCHELLA ELATA [Black Morel]

Found April 2019 in crack of paving stones

Microsphaera alni
xylaria hypoxylon close up

OTIDEA ONOTICA

[Hare's Ear]

PEZIZA VARIA [not sure if it's 'varia']

Reres Park, Broughty Ferry

SARCOSCYPHA COCCINEA or AUSTRIACA

[Scarlet Elf Cup / Fairy's Bath / Mossy Cup]

Balgavies Loch, February 1, 2024

xylaria hypoxylon close up

XYLARIA HYPOXYLON

[Candlesnuff Fungus or Staghorn's Fungus]

xylaria polymorpha
xylaria polymorpha

XYLARIA LONGIPES [Dead Moll's Fingers]

On fallen trunks. Pitkennedy Wood 2019

XYLARIA POLYMORPHA

[Dead Man's Fingers]

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