Slime Moulds
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Fuligo septica

Scrambled egg slime at Aranda, ACT

Fuligo septica at Aranda, ACT - 20 Oct 2015 03:42 PM
Fuligo septica at Aranda, ACT - 20 Oct 2015 03:42 PM
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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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Species information

  • Fuligo septica Scientific name
  • Scrambled egg slime Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 1483.99m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning
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