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Doughnut Fungus
A flat, crust-like, dark purple-brown to black cup fungus with a pale cream margin, anchored to burned ground by many whitish to yellowish root-like rhizoids. Its spores germinate after heating by fire, and it can parasitize the roots of conifers, causing patches of 'group dying' in plantations.
Not a food species; its edibility and toxicity are not documented in the sources consulted. It is leathery and grows on burned ground.
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