Fuligo septica

Scrambled egg slime at Isaacs, ACT

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Identification history

	Fuligo septica	4 Mar 2019	Heino1
	Fuligo septica	27 Feb 2019	Mike

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3 comments

Heino1 wrote:

28 Feb 2019

Fuligo septica is highly likely but this looks to be late in the mobile stage so there is still a chance it might be something else. Would you be able to find it again in a day or two to see id it has changed into the spring stage? If you can, a follow-up photo would be a nice addition.

Mike wrote:

3 Mar 2019

It started forming a brown crust (photo 3) a couple of hours after the first two photos 27 Feb. By the next day the brown crust was hard and the mould was shrinking. After three days it was quite hard and brittle: the last photo shows the inside underneath on 2 March. There did not seem to be spores.

Heino1 wrote:

4 Mar 2019

In slime moulds, the development from mobile to sporing may sometimes abort and perhaps that is the case here. Still, the additional photos support the ID as Fuliogo septica.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.115278 -35.373611
Altitude 672.0m
Places Isaacs, ACT

Sighting information

At least 1 Abundance
27 Feb 2019 09:57 AM Recorded on
Mike Recorded by
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Slime Moulds Mike Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

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
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