Scarlet Elf Cup Mushroom (Sarcoscypha Austriaca) - Edible Early Season Fungus

Scarlet Elf Cup (Sarcoscypha Austriaca) is a saprophytic fungus that grows on dead and decaying wood. It can be found in winter and early spring, when not many other mushrooms grow. Along with its unique cup-like shape, and vivid red color of the cup inside, it’s generally difficult to confuse this fungus for something else.

Identical looking Ruby Elf Cup, which can only be distinguished from Scarlet Elf Cup with the use of a microscope, is the only other mushroom that this could be realistically confused with, but whereas both are edible, to a practical forager there is no real difference.

In this video I show you how I harvest Scarlet Elf Cups in its natural habitat and tell you all about what the mushroom looks like, what it’s uses are, in particular how to use it in cooking, and even talk about its taste and how to incorporate it into recipes.

There is also a documented medicinal use of Scarlet Elf Cups, with the Oneida native peoples of Northern New York State in the USA using it externally to aid in wound healing, especially the navel wounds of newborns.

00:00 Disclaimer
00:12 Introducing Scarlet Elf Cup
01:16 Harvesting Scarlet Elf Cup
02:22 Scarlet Elf Cup hiding under leaf cover
03:12 Eurasian Jay mimics a Buzzard while I talk
03:39 Comparison to Ruby Elf Cup
04:53 Scarlet Elf Cup must be cooked before consumption
05:11 How Scarlet Elf Cups release spores
07:08 Scarlet Elf Cup growing on wood
07:52 Tiny little Scarlet Elf Cup
08:07 Suffolk Lungwort found beside Scarlet Elf Cups

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Mark

[deathisgone]

You're a pretty damn good teacher. doesn't matter if your not an expert this it interesting stuff that I didn't know at first. Don't have any of this in my woods but hey wouldn't hurt to check again. Good to see your still up and running. Take care brother and wish you the best luck in your journey in the woods.

[_Joy_Unleashed]

Mark - try no phone, no laptop, no internet, no trail cam, etc. Do what you're purporting to do but for reals.