Cotswold Foraging Experience

I grew up knowing elfcups as brilliant scarlet flashes on damp winter woodlands in the UK.
Then Costa Rica quietly rewrote that idea.

Here, cup fungi glow in pink, orange, salmon, and even green — rising from rotting logs on the rainforest floor.
They’re not the same genus as the red elfcups back home, but they share the same whimsical shape and forest magic.

It’s a small reminder of how much beauty we miss when we assume nature only has one version of a thing.
Travel far enough, look closely enough, and even the familiar becomes wonderfully strange.

Not all cup fungi are red 💗🧡💚

I wasn’t foraging today but still stumbled upon some fresh parasol mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 right next to dramatic cliffs.