{"id":1232,"date":"2018-11-19T13:59:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T19:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2018-11-19T13:59:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T19:59:11","slug":"common-birds-nest-crucibulum-laeve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1232","title":{"rendered":"Common Bird\u2019s Nest <em>(Crucibulum laeve)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1233\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Common_Birds_Nest_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1233\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1233\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Common_Birds_Nest_01.jpg\" alt=\"Common Bird\u2019s Nest\" width=\"960\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Common_Birds_Nest_01.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Common_Birds_Nest_01-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Common_Birds_Nest_01-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Common_Birds_Nest_01-624x397.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Ginger Halverson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Common Bird\u2019s Nest <em>(Crucibulum laeve)<\/em> is called that because it looks like a bird\u2019s nest with several eggs. It occurs on all continents except Greenland and Antarctica. It may be the most common bird\u2019s nest fungus in Canada and the northern two-thirds of the United States. It grows on sticks, wood chips, humus, vegetable debris, and manure. Although common, its small size makes it difficult to see.<\/p>\n<p>The fruiting body is a very small bowl-shaped \u201cnest\u201d containing several tiny, egg-like capsules. When young, it is yellowish, densely hairy, and topped with a yellowish lid. Eventually, the outer surface sloughs off and the lid ruptures and disappears. The mature mushroom has a hairless, brown, shiny, outer surface, and a smooth, white inner surface. Inside the hollow nest are several tiny, white, circular, flattened capsules (eggs). The eggs are attached to the side of the nest by a long, thin, elastic, white cord that can be seen only with a hand lens, a needle, and a lot of patience. The eggs are disbursed by raindrops and wind. Common Bird\u2019s Nest may be edible but is too small and tough to be worth the effort.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Fungi\/Common_Birds_Nest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Fungi\/Common_Birds_Nest.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1232\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Bird\u2019s Nest (Crucibulum laeve) is called that because it looks like a bird\u2019s nest with several eggs. It occurs on all continents except Greenland and Antarctica. It may be the most common bird\u2019s nest fungus in Canada and the northern two-thirds of the United States. It grows on sticks, wood chips, humus, vegetable debris, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[508,509],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}