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Mucronella pendula

Mucronella pendula

Description:

These single spines with pointed tips look like tiny icicles and, like icicles, they drip a watery substance from the tips. The translucent white fruit-bodies are attached to the wood by a short white stem.The watery texture of this coral might cause it to be mistaken for a jelly, but none of the jellies produce pendulous fruit-bodies.Length to 25 mm, diameter at base to 10 mm, tapering downward to a point; shaped like icicles or spear-heads; pure white to translucent with bluish tint, yellowing with age; watery, liquefying when old.

Habitat:

In the hollow ends or on the underside of large, fallen, rotting tree-trunks in wet forests

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5 Comments

CharliePrice
CharliePrice 8 years ago

Thanks everyone , that's so awesome ...a first sighting for PN, very happy about that ....they are not an easy one to find , but worth it when you do =)

Another wow :)

CalebSteindel
CalebSteindel 8 years ago

incredibly fascinating...congrats on first of the species, charlie!

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 8 years ago

CharliePrice, you're the only person on PN to spot these -- very cool!

LuisStevens
LuisStevens 8 years ago

Very interesting!

CharliePrice
Spotted by
CharliePrice

Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Spotted on Jun 5, 2015
Submitted on Jun 16, 2015

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