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Crimson Cup
A scarlet cup fungus of eastern North American hardwood forests, often found by morel hunters in early spring. It is indistinguishable in the field from S. austriaca and was long lumped under S. coccinea. Spores with two large oil drops and straight outer hairs separate it under the microscope.
No edibility information was found in the sources consulted. It cannot be told from S. austriaca without a microscope, and that species is generally considered inedible.
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