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Infraphylum Mycetozoa
Perfectly round "beads" of approximately 1 mm across, on rotting wood in oak forest. This mould comes in yellow and white; is it the same species?
Spotted on Sep 24, 2013
Submitted on Oct 1, 2013
6 Comments
The same goes for me, too, unfortunately. But thanks anyway, Mark, I appreciate your interest.
They are arranged similarly which I think can be indicative but I'm certainly no expert.
Could this be Leocarpus fragilis, too?
There are about 900 species known. They fall into several groups mostly based upon microstructures so you would probably need high detail macro shots to go to species. What would matter with these would be whether they are on stalks and if they have multiple balls on each base for example. You might just be best to leave it at Class: Myxomycetes although sometimes the larger pattern they make gives an ID too. It was only fairly recently that they were moved out of they fungi kingdom and into Amoebozoa
Thank you Mark, I think you are right. I shall try to look further into the Trichiidae family, but if you have any specifications...?
Hi Emilie - I think what you have is a slime mold not fungi. http://www.hampshirefungi.org.uk/progm.p...