Egg like cup mushroom

Interestingly I can't seem to find *anything* that looks like this crazy and distinctive cup mushroom.... There was a large clump of these, unfortunately mostly crushed, (this little guy was the only full one spared) growing in a fairly recently mulched area. They looked and felt very much like hardboiled egg.. white on top, to bright yellow near the base- the flesh was soft and gelatinous, not leathery at all and very fragile.
So far I've seen absolutely nothing like them on any of the mushroom sites I normally use - so if anyone has seen these before do tell!

comments (5)

Ferdy Christant

Lion

Intriguing find! The Peziza genus seems to have somewhat similar species in it, just a wild guess. Posted 7 years ago
1. morpheme
  
  Lion
  
  Indeed - I suspect it must be some sort of Peziza, but I'm coming up really empty of anything that looks quite like it yet. When I first spotted the stepped on ones I really did think it was hardboiled egg... because they were on landscape bark they could have come from almost anywhere too.. With the weird weather it could very well be something that normally won't even fruit around here.
  
  I went out yesterday to see if I could find some edible mushrooms and the forest is eerily bare.. normally at this time of the year it should be hard to take a step with out finding a fungi of some type, but this year almost nothing at all, despite the recent rain. I got a handful of chanterelles, but I'm convinced that there will be no matsutake this year at all. Posted 7 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    Sorry to hear that! What's up with the weather over there? Too dry? Posted 7 years ago
  2. 1. morpheme
      
      Lion
      
      LOL - if it's extreme we've had it this year... We had as much rain as is normal for a whole year by April - then it stopped and we had one of the longest dry periods ever recorded here... Early fall was dry and warm - even at night. Usually we get a pattern of warm days with cold nights. I don't know about all of the species, but the Tricholomas (matsutake at least) won't fruit without that weather. As of now it's started to rain again and we had very heavy rain - flooding even and it's been consistently cold, day and night. Very few mushrooms have popped and it's begun to snow and stick in the mountains, so I doubt we'll see much at this point.
      
      This fall I've seen very few corals, Trichloma, Amanita or Russulas which are usually pretty abundant. Boletes and Gomphus and Mycena came out but disappeared fast. There were some Lactarius and Chanterelles where I was yesterday, but not much else and not in great numbers. The only things I've seen a ton of so far are Armillaria (Honey mushrooms) and orange peel - and earthstars.. I can't say I saw hundreds, but I spotted maybe 1/2 a dozen and up till now I've seen 3 the whole time I've lived here..
      I will say some of the things I have spotted have been extraordinary... just a few doors down in a neighbors yard there were some Amanita Muscaria - the famous red mushrooms with white spots that were HUGE - they were the size of large dinner plates when they opened up Posted 7 years ago
    2. 1. Ferdy Christant
        
        Lion
        
        This is unacceptable, we need your annual season coverage!
        Seriously, hopefully the odd weather also brings odd sightings, fingers crossed :) Posted 7 years ago

No species identified

The species on this photo is not identified yet. When signed in, you can identify species on photos that you uploaded. If you have earned the social image editing capability, you can also identify species on photos uploaded by others.

By morpheme

Uploaded Dec 1, 2017. Captured Nov 29, 2017 15:43 in 2183-2199 E Park Dr E, Seattle, WA 98112, USA.

country flag of United States of America

Explore United States of America 39,953 9,642 8

X-E2
f/1.0
1/4s
ISO200
55mm

Captured in the fall. More fall photos.

This photo also appears in

Discover more photo collections