Cup of silver eggs

[Auxin]

This is one of the stranger mushrooms in my garden, the cup starts empty and they lays silver eggs inside.

It likes to grow under Malva neglecta (good vegetable for soup and oatmeal)

Tiny fuckers, just 5-8 mm in diameter. I almost hope it doesnt have a use, it'd be a bitch collecting enough to eat or to cure nipple fungus or whatever.

Edited August 30, 2014 by Auxin

[Halcyon Daze]

Bird's nest fungi

Quite a relaxing body-soak can be made from them if you fill an entire bathtub with just the tiny 'eggs'.

You ought to try it Auxin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidulariaceae

Edited August 30, 2014 by Halcyon Daze

[Auxin]

lmao

Thanks for the ident

[Optimystic]

yeah im getting them in mostly peaty soils .. found some more the other day, but they all have black eggs here

theres supposed to be different varieties but also they can vary in appearance ... the silvers look neato... the ones

here seem to have lots more seed looking eggs than that like maybe a dozen or so per nest... my first thought

was tiny aliens

I also had leopard earth balls growing out of some manure based mushroom compost last year... I was hoping they were truffles lol

[tarenna]

Yeah awesome - nice to get an ID on these guys, thanks heaps. I have them in various pots including one of a Brachychiton sp. and a few bridgesii.