Scarlet elf cups are very distinctive fungi, shaped like small cups with a bright red interior and a pale white or yellowish exterior.
They grow on dead wood from many species of deciduous trees.
Supposedly fairly common in winter and early spring, but often hidden in the vegetable litter under trees, or even underground.
These were growing on a pile of fallen branches a short distance from the Ranger Station in the Smestow Valley LNR.
