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Vulcan pixie cup
I found some more of these yesterday and now knowing what they are and that they should have a distinct odor, I gave them a smell (I must have been an interesting sight, down on my hands and knees sniffing the ground). I had to sacrifice one, but when crushed they *really* smell sulfurous. They very much live up to their name of Vulcan.
''Geopyxis vulcanalis'', commonly known as the vulcan pixie cup, is a species of cup fungus in the family Pyronemataceae. It was first described scientifically in 1878 by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck, from collections made in the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York. Pier Andrea Saccardo transferred it to the genus ''Geopyxis'' in 1889. Fruitbodies of ''G. vulcanalis'' are small and cup-like, with a light yellow hymenium. They become somewhat flattened in age. It grows on the ground.. more
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