Fuligo septica (Scrambled egg slime mould) at Aranda, ACT

Scrambled egg slime mould at Aranda, ACT

Fuligo septica at Aranda, ACT - 21 Oct 2015

Identification history

Fuligo septica	30 Nov 2015	Heino
Fuligo septica	16 Nov 2015	JanetRussell

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4 comments

Heino wrote:

30 Nov 2015

Well, looks like it's either Fuligo septica - or a very soggy lump of tissue (but then, Fuligo has been compared to quite a variety of things).

JanetRussell wrote:

30 Nov 2015

Is it an old and faded yellow form or is it a variation of colour? I later found another white one in the garden. I have never seen them white.

Heino wrote:

30 Nov 2015

Fuligo septica is yellow in the mobile (or plasmodial) stage. When it stops moving and changes to the sporing stage (with purple-black spores), the brittle, outer casing over the spore mass may be white, ochraceous, grrenish, pink, dull red, brown or violet. I'm quoting a slime mould book here and I haven't seen all those colours myself. Once the sporing stage has formed I'd guess that you wouldn't get any great fading colour change, since the casing is brittle and easily broken. That is of course the natural process, since the breaking of the coveing exposes the spores for dispersal.

JanetRussell wrote:

30 Nov 2015

Thank you

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