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Chlorociboria aeruginascens
These small (3-5mm) blue-green cup fungi fruit infrequently. They have a cup-shaped fruiting body with a tiny stem, which becomes flattened with age.
Growing on rotting wood in a mostly deciduous forest.
This species contains a quinone pigment called xylindein, which is the reason for the characteristic bluish-green stain that occurs on wood that's infected by this species.
7 Comments
Thanks Liz113
Amazing!!
Thanks Zlatan
Lovely coloring; great fungi.
Your welcome, Christine....
Thanks maplemoth! It's one of my favorite kinds of fungi :)
Beautiful, blue-green coloring....