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Chocolate Tube Slime Mold

Stemonitis splendens

Description:

A large patch of fluffy, wispy chocolate coloured wiry structures seen on the cut end of a pine log. this is the spore-bearing stage of the slime mold with the purplish brown sporangia on closely packed wiry stalks.

Habitat:

Pine log

Notes:

http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:c... Family: Stemonitaceae

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1 Comment

katelew02
katelew02 10 years ago

So cool

Leuba Ridgway
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Leuba Ridgway

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Dec 10, 2013
Submitted on Dec 14, 2013

Spotted for Mission

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