Tag Archives: Nectria cinnabarina

Club and Ascomycete Fungi in Gunnersbury Triangle

“White Spindles” club fungus, Clavaria fragilis
Slender Club, Macrotyphula juncea
Candlesnuff or Stagshorn Fungus, Xylaria hypoxylon
Hairy Curtain Crust, Stereum hirsutum
Coral Spot, Nectria cinnabarina
Birch Blackhead, Diatrype favacea
Dacrymyces stillatus

Nectria cinnabarina – a tiny fungus on wood

Nectria cinnabarina in garden

Storm Doris is blowing a gale today, but in between the showers and racing ragged clouds was a fine half-hour of warm sunshine, the daffodils glowing yellow. A cut twig caught my eye in the brilliant light, speckled with tiny spheres, the pinkish fruiting bodies of the Ascomycete Nectria cinnabarina, a small saprophytic fungus, also called Coral Spot.