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Chocolate Tube Slime Mold

Stemonitis spp.

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Field Notes

Description:

Photo take in my garden on a dry tree i have on a pound I think is a fungi but maybe not around 8 mm tall looks more like a caterpillar small rounded patches around 3 cmm diameter grows from the dead tree.

Habitat:

Tropical semiarid.

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Stemonitis

Species ID Suggestions

Chocolate Tube Slime Mold

Stemonitis spp.

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Comments (6)
Dan Doucette
I just spotted this yesterday for the first time. Cool stuff!
JC_Forester
Not really a fungi, something I learned a few weeks ago about slime molds. They are very fascinating. I have yet to see this genera. Nice one. :)

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Mexico Horn of Plenty
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Yucatan Peninsula Biodiversity
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PublishedJune 16, 2013

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