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Physarum cinereum

Physarum cinereum

Description:

Tiny white spheroid slime mold on asphalt, stciks, leaves, grass, soil. Total are covered approx. 1.5 square metres.

Habitat:

Suburban footpath. 12 degrees C; 90% shade; rained for the previous 4 days but not on this day

Notes:

Identified as a slime mold by its pattern of spread. I love the way it finds edges, grooves, flats etc. and makes apparent choices on how it will use them as a single organism thus resulting in a pattern that looks 'totally planned'.. Not really fungi but amoeba.

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Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on May 29, 2012
Submitted on May 30, 2012

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