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Tag Archives: Tubifera ferruginosa

Great suffering slime balls

19 Friday Apr 2024

Posted by sconzani in fungi

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British slime moulds, Lycogala species, Red raspberry slime, slime, slime mould, Tubifera ferruginosa

This fallen log was half covered in slime, balls and balls of orange-red-coloured slime. At first I thought they were all the same species but, after looking more closely at my photos, I think there are two. The majority were these Red raspberry slime balls (Tubifera ferruginosa).

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And the others were one of the Lycogala species of slime. Both looked delicious … but you wouldn’t want to eat them.

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From the slime mould, the sublime

20 Friday Jan 2017

Posted by sconzani in nature

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Arcyria nutans, Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa, Fuligo septica, slime, slime mould, slime mould on the move, Tubifera ferruginosa

Slime mould: NOUN. A simple organism that consists of an acellular mass of creeping jelly-like protoplasm containing nuclei, or a mass of amoeboid cells. When it reaches a certain size it forms a large number of spore cases. Oxford Dictionary

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I’ve posted about slime moulds before but they continue to fascinate me and I continue to find more and more of them so I thought I’d share more photos.

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