This was growing in the same habitat as the Candle Snuff fungi, in a beech wood, on rotten beech logs. I shot various possible slime moulds. This, the only successful image, I thought was a fungus (Bulgaria type).
I am advised that it is Lycogala epidendrum.
The beech leaf Fagus sylvaticus gives the scale:
This crop shows the main area of interest:
Slime moulds are in the Amoebozoa group:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoebozoa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_moulds
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Slime Mould Lycogala epidendrum
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Slime Mould Lycogala epidendrum
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No. It is all stages of the slime mould. If you look at the link you will see a pretty pink stage of the large, spheroid bodies, which was not present.Cyclops wrote:So there are white fungi here and the small yellow objects are the slime moulds?
http://www.biopix.info/lycogala-epidend ... 84322.aspx
Pretty, isn't it?:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/snappysnapper/5870709026/
Here is a schitzophrenic one:
http://wildflowers.perverdonk.com/Mushr ... _frame.htm
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Or you have Cramp Balls, various Daldinia sppCyclops wrote:Oh so i may have seen some already!
http://www.northamptonshirewildlife.co. ... ntrica.jpg
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Harold, Im sure Ive photographed such on a dead tree stump!Harold Gough wrote:Or you have Cramp Balls, various Daldinia sppCyclops wrote:Oh so i may have seen some already!
http://www.northamptonshirewildlife.co. ... ntrica.jpg
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Oh I know, I was just saying the pic in that link reminded me of one I photographed and thought was a fungus. Ill find the photo to show you.Harold Gough wrote:Larry,
I'm not disputing it, just mentioning a similar alternative.
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The mould was found again on Christmas Eve. This time I used a tripod, exposure times longer than one second being indicated at ISO 400, with the Olympus 35mm macro 4/3 AF on the E-P2. I set 8 seconds anti-shock delay and used AF.
The coloured bodies are a few mm across.
0.5 second f7
The remainder are crops of further images taken from increasingly closer distances.
1 second f8 (the black spheroid object is an old one of the orange structures).
1.6 seconds f10
2 seconds f11
These pictures, especially the last, suggest that this is the Wolf's Milk Slime Lycogala epidendrum, so-called because of the form of the sporangium resembling a wolf's mammary gland. It is also called the Toothpaste Slime because the young forms, not shown here, contain pink paste.
Harold
The coloured bodies are a few mm across.
0.5 second f7
The remainder are crops of further images taken from increasingly closer distances.
1 second f8 (the black spheroid object is an old one of the orange structures).
1.6 seconds f10
2 seconds f11
These pictures, especially the last, suggest that this is the Wolf's Milk Slime Lycogala epidendrum, so-called because of the form of the sporangium resembling a wolf's mammary gland. It is also called the Toothpaste Slime because the young forms, not shown here, contain pink paste.
Harold
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Having photographed the organism looking rather good on Christmas Eve, I was wondering, on Boxing Day morning, whether I could do better. However, it was now starting to dry out at the end of this active period.
All images have ben cropped by up to about 70% to exclude large areas of surrounding dead wood, devoid of slime mould:
A small portion, further down the log, and not quite so mature.
The hardware was the same as for the previous set and the exposures were similar.
I have found the 35mm macro lens and its AF, as useful here as I found it hopeless for active live insects.
Harold
All images have ben cropped by up to about 70% to exclude large areas of surrounding dead wood, devoid of slime mould:
A small portion, further down the log, and not quite so mature.
The hardware was the same as for the previous set and the exposures were similar.
I have found the 35mm macro lens and its AF, as useful here as I found it hopeless for active live insects.
Harold
My images are a medium for sharing some of my experiences: they are not me.