Fuligo septica

Scrambled egg slime at Isaacs, ACT

Fuligo septica at Isaacs, ACT - 27 Feb 2019
Fuligo septica at Isaacs, ACT - 27 Feb 2019
Fuligo septica at Isaacs, ACT - 27 Feb 2019
Fuligo septica at Isaacs, ACT - 27 Feb 2019
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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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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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