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Yellow slime mold

Photo by MartinL
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Field Notes

Description:

A colony of sporing bodies of a slime mold showing multiple bulbs on each stalk and some older expired examples.

Habitat:

Wet ferntree gully in a forest of tall eucalypts.

Notes:

It is cold at this altitude and there was some snow about.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (5)
MartinL
Thanks Leuba, I think that the white spikes represent expired spore bodies. Mark, I am not sure that multiple heads are in this genus but my other spotting seems to fit. Thanks LuckyLogan, I have joined the club ;)
LuckyLogan
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/43573086
LuckyLogan
Feel free to add this any other slime mold spottings to my mission! Thanks!
Leuba Ridgway
Very nice Martin. I like the tiny white spikes coming off the fruiting bodies.

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Slime Molds
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PublishedJuly 21, 2014

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