Peanut Butter Cup Fungi - Galiella rufa

These were just "babies" and hadn't opened up yet.

Habitat: Mossy, rotting wood in a deciduous forest

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Flown Kimmerling

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Ohhh! I love the "baby" form of these! So neat! Posted 5 years ago
1. Christine Young
  
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  Thanks! Tomorrow, I'm going to look and see if any old and crusty ones are left to document that as well. Posted 5 years ago

The Peanut Butter Cup Fungus

''Galiella rufa'' is a species of fungus in the family Sarcosomataceae. The fungus produces cup-shaped fruit bodies that typically grow in clusters on branches and exposed portions of buried wood throughout eastern and Midwest North America and in Malaysia.

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Similar species: Pezizales

Species identified by Christine Young