Nut Disco - Hymenoscyphus fructigenus
A tiny cream, yellowish or buff-coloured cup or disc-shaped fungus associated with decaying acorn cups. It can have long or short stalks and usually grows in clusters.
This species or a related species in a species aggregate has also occasionally recorded on beech mast in Leicestershire.
Photograph on host plant; note substrate and associated plant species.
On acorns, possibly other nuts?
Autumn.
This may be an aggregate of species; we are not sure whether the specimens on beech mast or hazel nuts are now regarded as separate species. (see Laessoe & Petersen, 2019)
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Great Merrible Wood
28 September 2023
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Great Merrible Wood
26 July 2025
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Great Merrible Wood
28 September 2023
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Great Merrible Wood
28 September 2023
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Species profile
- Common names
- Nut Disco
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Helotiales
- Family:
- Helotiaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 08/10/2019 (Lewis, Steven)
- Last record:
- 26/07/2025 (N, Matt)
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