Common Bird's Nest

Crucibulum laeve

Forests, parks, gardens, homesteads. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies tiny. Young ones elongated-globose, later elongated, cylindrical, shaped like small crucibles or cups, 0.5–1.5 cm tall and 0.5–0.8 (1) cm wide, the outer side hairy, felty, yellow, yellowish-brown, lion-coloured, the inner side shiny, pale brown, greyish, smooth, not fluted. Peridioles numerous, as if heaped in a basket, flat, lens-shaped, containing spores. Grows in small groups, several to a dozen or more fruiting bodies, on rotten wood, straw and herbaceous debris. Common. Saprotroph.