If you're out and about near any wooded areas over the next few weeks, keep an eye out for theses fungi. They're called Scarlet Elf Cups. They get their name from the ancient belief that wood elves drank the morning dew from them.

I found these ones on the Victoria Park Nature Trail in the west end of Glasgow

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It's getting round to Elfcup time of year up here, this is from a while ago. They are amost all Scarlet Elfcups up here, Sarcoscypha austriaca, not the less common Ruby Elfcup. You need to peek down a microscope to tell the difference. #Fungus #Sarcoscypha #Elfcup #fungi

Elf cups. Gave me quite a surprise they are so vivid, verging on psychedelic! Spotted them on the Llangollen canal between Trevor and Chirk tunnel. Don't tell me fairies don't bathe in them :) #fungus #nature #elfcup

Elf cups. Gave me quite a surprise they are so vivid, verging on psychedelic! Spotted them on the Llangollen canal between Trevor and Chirk tunnel. Don't tell me fairies don't bathe in them :) #fungus #nature #elfcup