Sighting 4201014
Fuligo septica
Scrambled egg slime at Isaacs, ACT
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| Fuligo septica | Heino1 | 4 Mar 2019 | |
| Fuligo septica | Mike | 27 Feb 2019 |
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3 comments
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.
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.
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.
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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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