When I lived in New York City, the view from my kitchen window was framed by a tremendous scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea) who towered over the brick homes below — a 150-year-old remnant from ...

When I lived in New York City, the view from my kitchen window was framed by a tremendous scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea) who towered over the brick homes below — a 150-year-old remnant from ...

Daphne Cushnahan, Dungannon, Co Tyrone It is a fungus called the scarlet elf cup, Sarcoscypha austriaca. It grows on buried twigs of birch and willow and sends up its scarlet fruiting bodies at ...

“It is edible or not edible but we don’t want people eating it.” It is also called sarcoscypha coccinea, commonly known as the scarlet elf cup, and is a species of fungus in the family Sarcoscyphaceae ...