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Black bulgar
Meerdalwoud, July 2011 .
In its first stage is typically cup-shaped. The top is flat, taking a bath plug form. It is divided into two distinct parts in color: an inner area which at maturity is flat black, the fertile carpophorus; and the outside area, distinctly powdery brown. The size of fully grown individuals can reach 4 cm in diameter.
Habitat: This is a fairly common and abundant species, which already appears in the summer and during the fall. Fruiting on logs and fallen branches of hardwoods trees, sometimes forming large colonies.
''Bulgaria inquinans'' is a fungus in the family Bulgariaceae. It is commonly known by the name black bulgar.
It grows on branches and bark of dead oak and hornbeam. The species can be found from October to March. It can be commonly found on felled trees stored in timber yards. Research into the colouring materials found in the fungus by H.Lockett and R.Edwards at Bradford University gave name to three purple pigments as two bulgarhodins and bulgarein.
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