Mushroom Type Edible  
    
Latin Name Sarcoscypha coccinea 
    

    
Maximum height (CM) 3 
Maximum width (CM) 6 
    
Smell Faint
 
Gills Does not have gills but very fine pores on the underside of the cap covered in tiny fine white hairs
 
Spore Print White, Elipsoid or cylindrical
 
Stem Very short and thin and covered in tiny fine white hairs
 
Cap Vivid scarlet cup shaped cap. Initially deeply cup shaped flattening to a shallower disk shape, sometimes withsplit edges upon aging. The underside is much paler and covered in tiny white hairs.
 
Flesh Thin and fragile
 
Habitat Growing in clusters on dead wood and quite often hidden under leaf litter.
 
Taste Mild, mushroomy.
 
Possible Confusion With its bright colour, shape and season it is very hard to confuse this mushroom with any other with the exception of the less common, almost identical and edible Ruby Elf Cup, Sarcosypha austriaca, although several different sources confuse the