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Arcyria ferruginea

Arcyria ferruginea

Photo by arlanda
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Field Notes

Description:

Slime mold, myxomicete.
Small erect slime mould, often found in large colonies, crowded or gregarious, stalked, 1 or 2 mm total height. When young, in the plasmodium stage, is pink salmon or cream-coloured. Sporocarps, i.e., the fruiting bodies, appear usually in dense groups, sharing a common hypothallus. Stalk 0.3-0.8 mm long, with the same colour as the sporotheca. The sporocarps, are at first spherical changing when mature to short-cylindrical or pyriform, 1-2 mm tall, 0.5-1.0 mm diam., being brownish orange, terracotta, ochraceous, olive or olive-brown coloured.

Habitat:

On a rotten dead pine trunk. Pine tree and Holm oak forest.

Notes:

Camera Model: NIKON D300. Exposure Time: 1/60 sec.; f/32; ISO Speed Rating: 400. Focal Length: 90.0 mm.

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