Sarcoscypha coccinea    (Scop.) Lambotte 

common name(s) : Ruby Elfcup, Scarlet Elfcup1 

New classification: Ascomycota/Pezizomycotina/Pezizomycetes/Pezizomycetidae/Pezizales/Sarcoscyphaceae  
Former classification: Ascomycota/Hymenoascomycetes/Pezizomycetideae/Pezizales/Sarcoscyphineae/Sarcoscyphaceae  

synonyms: Peziza coccinea, Plectania coccinea 

edibility : edible

photo gallery of Sarcoscypha coccinea
photo gallery of Sarcoscypha coccinea potential confusions with Sarcoscypha coccinea toxicity of Sarcoscypha coccinea genus Sarcoscypha  

The fruiting body is cup shaped, regularly formed, with a bright red, smooth, shiny internal surface, the external surface being whitish, pink to orange, dull, hairy.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on wood, on dead wood of broad-leaved trees, on plum trees, hazel, brambles.

The fruiting period takes place from January to June.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 4 cm (between 1 and 15 cm)
  total height approximately 2 cm (between 1 and 3 cm)


Sarcoscypha coccinea is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Sarcoscypha coccinea in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Sarcoscypha coccinea in the forest of Rambouillet



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