Common Eyelash

The Common Eyelash is a shallow disc shape, which usually grows to between 0.2 cm and 1 cm in diameter. Young specimens are rounded, but as it matures the cups open up and expand into a disc. The cups inner surface can vary in colour from orange through to a very deep red. The outer surface is pale orange and around the edge of each cap is a fringe of long dark coloured hairs or ‘eyelashes’, measuring up to 1 cm in length.

Found from spring to autumn on wet, rotting wood, usually growing in groups or clusters and occasionally solitary.

Widespread and fairly common in Britain, but it is tiny and despite being fairly common it often goes unnoticed.