Common bird's-nest
A species of Crucibulum, Also known as Yellow bird's nest fungus Scientific name : Crucibulum laeve Genus : Crucibulum
Common bird's-nest, A species of Crucibulum
Also known as:
Yellow bird's nest fungus
Scientific name: Crucibulum laeve
Genus: Crucibulum
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Description
The common bird's-nest (Crucibulum laeve ) emerges as a small, drum-shaped mushroom with a yellow or ochre-colored membrane across its top. When that membrane is shed or removed, it reveals a small cache of peridioles, which are small-egg shaped structures that contain the mushroom's spores. Together with the bowl-like base of the mushroom, the peridioles truly look like bird's eggs sitting in a nest.
Colors
Brown
Yellow
Habitat
The common bird's-nest is a woodland mushroom, but it can appear in various urban settings, as well. It primarily grows on woody and vegetable debris, such as wood chips, needles, leaves, bark, fallen branches, sticks, and nutshells; it also can grow in humus, manure, and occasionally on herbivore dung. In urban settings, it can appear on old furniture and rotting timber.
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General Info
Habitat
The common bird's-nest is a woodland mushroom, but it can appear in various urban settings, as well. It primarily grows on woody and vegetable debris, such as wood chips, needles, leaves, bark, fallen branches, sticks, and nutshells; it also can grow in humus, manure, and occasionally on herbivore dung. In urban settings, it can appear on old furniture and rotting timber.
Growth Form
Saprobic; solitary, scattered, gregarious
Sporocarp Height
5-10 mm
Cap Diameter
5-8 mm
Endangered Species
No
Habit
Saprophytic
Substrate
On wood
Smell
Not distinctive
Spore Print
White
Species Status
Widely distributed
How to identify it?
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Club fungi Class
Mushroom-forming fungi Order
Gilled fungi Family
Agaricaceae Genus
Crucibulum Species
Common bird's-nest 
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