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Tubifera sp
Slime mould, spotted it in the forest on shredded conifer-deadwood. And yes, the coral-like color is real...
Spotted on Aug 14, 2011
Submitted on Aug 14, 2011
10 Comments
Hey Lars! There is a new global mission for slime molds http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/4357... If you could add other spottings as well, that would be awesome. Thanks.
Added to "Slime moulds" mission
Added to mission "Beauty of Decay"
Thanks a lot, Clive, for the ID.
OOO, that's a nice one too. But I was referring to: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/705...
You mean this one, auntnance ? http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/684...
Yes, it's ID'd
Lars, did you ever get a lead on the yellow fungus? you posted previously?
Thanks for the direction, Dan
Lars, I don't have any ID books for European fungi but from the Audubon guide to N. American mushrooms, this looks a lot like Red Raspberry slime -
Tubifera ferruginosa
http://images.google.com/imgres?q=tubife...
what a pretty color!