10/Oct/2025, 4:50 PM
Kadrioru park, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Urban park, on dead wet decaying mossy hardwood stump
59°26'22.3"N 24°47'43.8"E
🌡️ 12°C 🌤️ Scattered clouds 💨 Wind 300° WNW->ESE, 17 km/h
Original Instagram postAscocoryne sarcoides
purple jellydisc
- Scientific identification
- Ascocoryne sarcoides (Jacq.) J.W.Groves & D.E.Wilson
- Family
- Helotiaceae
- Class
- Leotiomycetes
- Genus
- Ascocoryne
Names across languages
- English: purple jellydisc
- German: Fleischroter Gallertbecher
- Finnish: Kantohytynupikka
- Estonian: Lilla tardliudik
- Russian: Аскокорине мясная
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2025-10-10.
Hymenium
Apothecial disc surface smooth, gelatinous, violet-pink to purple, underside sometimes finely fuzzy or lighter in tone
Apothecium
Begins as irregular, brain-like gelatinous lobes (anamorphic form), then becomes more cup- or disc-shaped, lobed margin
Hymenium Attachment
N/A (apothecial)
Stipe
Absent / rudimentary when present
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Saprobic, growing on heavily decayed hardwood, autumn to winter, in clustered patches
Description
Insignificant
Fruit body
Apothecium size up to ~5–15 cm when clustered (discs merging)
Dimensions
Individual apothecia few mm to ~1–2 cm in diameter
Flesh
Flesh gelatinous, fleshy, violet-pink unchanging color
Chemical reactions
No reagent reaction
Microscopy
Spores fusiform/ellipsoid, hyaline, smooth, ~13–21×3.5–5 µm; biguttulate early, asci 8-spored cylinders (~115–130×8–10 µm), paraphyses filiform (~1–2 µm width)
Overview
Gelatinous, violet-pink disc fungus that begins as brain-like lobes and later forms cup-shaped apothecia en masse on decaying wood
1967). Taxon 16(1): 40.
Field encounters
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