bird's nest fungus
A tiny cup-shaped fungus containing packet-like spore structures that resemble eggs in a nest.
Crucibulum laeve (common bird's-nest fungus), representative reirsopp
All languages
- English
- bird's nest fungus
- Norwegian
- reirsopp
- Japanese
- チャダイゴケ類 — ちゃだいごけるい — chadaigoke-rui
- Korean
- Crucibulum laeve — Scientific name; Korean name under review
- Spanish
- hongo nido de pájaro
- French
- champignon nid-d'oiseau
- German
- Nestpilz
Illustrations are AI-generated and translations are undergoing language review.
Reference sources
- First Nature — common bird's-nest fungus has tiny yellow-brown tapering cups with five to eight whitish peridioles on rotting wood
- University of Minnesota Extension — bird's-nest fungi are miniature cups whose shiny egg-like peridioles are splashed out by rain
- First Nature conservation note — Crucibulum laeve can contain ten or more peridioles and uses raindrop splash dispersal