Cyathus striatus    (Huds.:Pers.) Pers. 

common name(s) : Fluted Bird's Nest, Bird's Nest Fungus 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Agaricoideae/Nidulariaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Gasteromycetideae/Nidulariales/Nidulariaceae  

synonyms: Cyathus hirsutus 

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of Cyathus striatus
photo gallery of Cyathus striatus potential confusions with Cyathus striatus toxicity of Cyathus striatus genus Cyathus  

The fruiting body is like a bird's nest containing eggs : trumpet, with a striate interior surface and a lid, containing lenticular balls, with silver-grey eggs on the internal surface, the external surface being tawny brown, hairy.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on wood, on dead wood, twigs and other vegetal debris.

The fruiting period takes place from March to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 0.9 cm (between 0.5 and 1.5 cm)
  total height approximately 1 cm (between 0.5 and 1.5 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Cyathus striatus is infrequent and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Cyathus striatus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Cyathus striatus in the forest of Rambouillet



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