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Stemonitis splendens
Tall, brown sporangia on thin stalks, which were growing in dense clusters on rotting wood. Each tuft was about 15 mm tall.
Habitat: Decorticated, rotting wood in a mixed forest
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Thanks so much Rob and Neil for your comments :)
Belated congrats, Christine. This is a wonderful spotting, and it's not a fungus either. Amazing. Thanks to you and your keen eyes for sharing :)
Congrats Christine on your sotd.
Thank you so much for the SOTD! I love finding this slime mold :). If you brush the tops of the stalks, the brown spores puff into the air and look like cocoa dust.
@ Danièle, it definitely resembles chestnut vermicelli!
Thanks to everyone for all the comments :)
Awesome find Christine,i love these guys,very good series,congrats on the well deserved SOTD and thanks for sharing
Cool Christine. What a picture. Congratulations on the well-deserved SOTD.
Another AWESOME SPOTTING....by YOU!!
CONGRATS!! :)
Congratulations Christine!!! I love this spotting :)
Congrats for the SOTD Mam.....well deserved achievement....✌️
Congratulations Christine! Awesome spotting!
Congratulations Christine, your Chocolate Tube Slime is our Spotting of the Day! (They always make me think of chestnut vermicelli ;-) )
"It almost looks edible! This Chocolate Tube Slime (Stemonitis splendens) is our Spotting of the Day. Also commonly known as tree hair, Stemonitis splendens is a slime mould, a group of organisms formerly classified as Fungi. Stemonitis splendens belongs to a class of slime mould known as Myxomycetes or Myxogastria depending on the nomenclature, where all species pass through several phases from individual cells to conspicuous fruiting bodies such as the ones seen here. Stemonitis is a genus of slime mould found throughout the world (with the exception of Antarctica). They are characterized by the tall brown sporangia (structures which produce and contain spores), supported on slender stalks, and grow in clusters on rotting wood or leaves".
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Thanks for all the comments! It's also known as Chocolate Tube Slime!
Very cool fungi. Thank you for sharing Christine :)
How wonderful...how strange...how....ran out of words.
Awesome...