Mushroom: “Common Dung Cup"

Awful name, super cool fungi.

The peziza vesiculosa, which has the unfortunate name of 'common dung cup' or 'blistered cup', is super common in highly nutritious soils, which is why it's thriving in my raised bed where I recently added a big happy new layer of my new DIY potting soil.

Poisonous? Yep.

Rad to look at and great for the soil? Heck Yeah!

"If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long." ~ Wendell Berry