Eyelash Cup Mushrooms
It’s easy to see how this cup fungi gets the common name Eyelash Cup when you get a closeup look at these tiny mushrooms. Dark hairs on the cup’s edge look like eyelashes. Their habit of growing in groups and orange color makes them stand out.
Scutellinia scutellata

A macro view revels the hairs that look like eyelashes. Eyelash cups seem to like cooler temperatures, I find them regularly in the spring and fall.

The trees have dropped most of their leaves and hunting mushrooms has gotten a lot harder. Anything on the forest floor is now pretty much buried and even if a mushroom is ‘visible’ they’re well camouflaged by the colors of the fallen leaves.

Brushing away the leaves revels some mushrooms growing under the litter.

I haven’t tried too hard to identify these. It just gets too frustrating. If you have a clue I’m willing to listen.

Another but not as well hidden group of mushrooms.

Again the identity is anybody’s guess, I’m not going to bang my head trying to name them.


I figured it wasn’t a bad day at all. I actually knew half of the mushrooms I found. The Pear Shaped Puffball photo didn’t come out well enough to use so you won’t see it here.






