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Slime Mold

Photo by CharliePrice
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Description:

20-30cm area covered in small pink like balls , 3 different spots on the one log(rotting ) attached to white stalks , some seperated ones , starting to have no white stalk , like they are melting. moist and glutenous to touch . ball heads 1mm

Habitat:

moist rotting logs in the forest , rained a few days earlier , then 2 days of sunshine.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
CharliePrice
I have been doing some investigating on Flickr ..there is a lady kim fleming , has an entire album on myxomycetes...and have been reading as many posts as i can ..from what i have gathered...palepink/salmon/orange/brown ...is the order
Mark Ridgway
Incredible colour for these. Do you know what colour they turned next?

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Slime Molds
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PublishedSeptember 7, 2014

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