{"id":7158,"date":"2019-10-18T14:13:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T14:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=7158"},"modified":"2019-10-18T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T14:35:18","slug":"birds-nest-fungus-at-kew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/18\/birds-nest-fungus-at-kew\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird&#8217;s Nest Fungi at Kew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191018-Kew-Gardens-Birdsnest-Fungus-SMALL-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191018-Kew-Gardens-Birdsnest-Fungus-SMALL-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191018-Kew-Gardens-Birdsnest-Fungus-SMALL-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191018-Kew-Gardens-Birdsnest-Fungus-SMALL-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191018-Kew-Gardens-Birdsnest-Fungus-SMALL-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191018-Kew-Gardens-Birdsnest-Fungus-SMALL.jpg 1336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Each cup is no bigger than your little fingernail. The cups grow on damp compost which the workers in Kew Gardens heap thickly under the trees. The &#8220;eggs&#8221; are called Peridioles, and they&#8217;re basically little bags of spores; they are splashed out of the cups by rain and the spores can then germinate. The family is the Nidulariaceae, which surprisingly is part of the Agaricales (normal-looking Basidiomycete mushrooms).  species is the Common Bird&#8217;s Nest, <em>Crucibulum laeve<\/em>. One of the cups is still developing and is covered by a membrane. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"915\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191018-Another-Birdsnest-Fungus-1024x915.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191018-Another-Birdsnest-Fungus-1024x915.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191018-Another-Birdsnest-Fungus-150x134.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191018-Another-Birdsnest-Fungus-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191018-Another-Birdsnest-Fungus-768x686.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Yep, a different Bird&#8217;s Nest Fungus with a larger, greyer, frilly cup. This seems to be the Field Bird&#8217;s Nest, <em>Cyathus olla<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[1513,1517,1512,1519,1518,198],"class_list":["post-7158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-birdsnest-fungi","tag-common-birdsnest","tag-crucibulum-laeve","tag-cyathus-olla","tag-field-birdsnest","tag-kew-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7158"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7166,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158\/revisions\/7166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}