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Chocolate Tube Slime Mold
Stemonitis sp
-37.8934, 145.366
Field Notes
Description:
Two separate clusters of soft white growth, one about 15mm long (pics #1 & 2) and the other about 10mm (pic#3) were seen growing from the trunk of a live giant gum tree. Each cluster showed dark hair-like projections, each with a thicker, cylindrical, chocolate coloured spore-bearing body arising from it. The whole cluster was covered with white filamentous growth.
Habitat:
Damp tall eucalyptus forest
Notes:
I initially mistook these for a small bird's body feathers but a closer inspection revealed individual pinkish-brown finger-like structures. My first slime mold of this kind !!
I would appreciate any explanation about the white filamentous growth over the mold..thanks
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