Red-fruited Pixie Cup
Cladonia pleurota (Flörke) Schaer.
Also called: Red-fruited Pixie-cup Lichen, Red-fruited pixie-cup, cup lichen
Edibility
Edibility unknown — do not eat
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Photos
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Photo: Charlie Pavlisich. CC-BY. Source (inaturalist)
Lookalikes
No lookalikes are recorded for this species yet. That does not mean there are none. Many mushrooms look alike, so never rely on appearance alone.
Season
When this species has been recorded, by month, from open-licensed US and Canada observations. It shows when people report it, not a guarantee it is fruiting.
The highlighted bar is the current month.
View season data as a table
| Month | Records |
|---|---|
| January | 49 |
| February | 37 |
| March | 61 |
| April | 87 |
| May | 151 |
| June | 282 |
| July | 681 |
| August | 384 |
| September | 194 |
| October | 146 |
| November | 66 |
| December | 45 |
Where it is found
States and provinces with the most records. Check the foraging rules for the place you plan to visit.
- Alaska 285 records · Foraging rules
- Quebec 243 records · Foraging rules
- Ontario 178 records · Foraging rules
- British Columbia 129 records · Foraging rules
- Minnesota 111 records · Foraging rules
- Virginia 95 records · Foraging rules
- Massachusetts 93 records · Foraging rules
- Maryland 91 records · Foraging rules
- Pennsylvania 85 records · Foraging rules
- Michigan 82 records · Foraging rules
- Maine 79 records · Foraging rules
- New Hampshire 72 records · Foraging rules
- North Carolina 68 records · Foraging rules
- Connecticut 67 records · Foraging rules
- West Virginia 64 records · Foraging rules
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- Northwest Territories59 records
- Manitoba49 records
- Newfoundland and Labrador47 records
- Nunavut46 records
- Vermont43 records
- New Jersey38 records
- New York35 records
- Tennessee34 records
- Nova Scotia27 records
- Missouri25 records
- Yukon23 records
- New Brunswick20 records
- Washington19 records
- Wisconsin16 records
- Kansas13 records
- Delaware10 records
- Saskatchewan10 records
- Ohio10 records
- Montana9 records
- District of Columbia8 records
- Alberta8 records
- Arkansas7 records
- Colorado7 records
- Iowa6 records
- South Carolina5 records
- Illinois4 records
- Arizona4 records
- Indiana4 records
- Kentucky4 records
- Wyoming4 records
- Alabama3 records
- Georgia3 records
- Prince Edward Island3 records
- Hawaii2 records
- California1 records
- Idaho1 records
- Nebraska1 records
- Oklahoma1 records
- Texas1 records
About
Cladonia pleurota is a species of fruticose, cup lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. It was first formally described as a new species by German lichenologist Heinrich Gustav Flörke in 1808 as Capitularia pleurota. Ludwig Emanuel Schaerer transferred it to the genus Cladonia in 1850. In North America, it is known colloquially as the red-fruited pixie cup or the red-fruited cup lichen.
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