Orange Peel Fungus - Aleuria aurantia
The large sessile orange cups often grow in clusters, and resemble orange peels strewn on the ground, giving this species its common name. The underside is covered in minute woolly white floccules.
Photograph in habitat; note substrate
In disturbed soils, e.g. on the edge of paths or roads in parks, gardens, cemeteries and woodlands
September to January.
Lostash
Blaby By-Pass footpath
27 November 2011
Lostash
Blaby By-Pass footpath
27 November 2011
AnnGleave
Monks rest
29 October 2021
Lostash
Leicester Botanical Gardens
06 October 2013
David Gould
Bradgate Park
21 December 2014
Lostash
Botanical Gardens
20 September 2015
Saharima Roenisch
Ratcliffe Road, Leicester
23 November 2017
GHunt
Shady Lane Arboretum
13 November 2025
Saharima Roenisch
Leicester Victoria Park
20 November 2020
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Species profile
- Common names
- Orange Peel Fungus
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Pezizales
- Family:
- Pyronemataceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 32
- First record:
- 27/11/2011 (Watson, Ashley)
- Last record:
- 13/11/2025 (Hunt, Graham)
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