Slime Moulds
Sighting 4420187

Fuligo septica

Scrambled egg slime at Yarralumla, ACT

Fuligo septica at Yarralumla, ACT - 23 Jan 2022 10:08 AM
Fuligo septica at Yarralumla, ACT - 23 Jan 2022 10:08 AM
Fuligo septica at Yarralumla, ACT - 23 Jan 2022 10:08 AM
Fuligo septica at Yarralumla, ACT - 23 Jan 2022 10:08 AM
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Identification history

Fuligo septica 25 Jan 2022 Heino1
Unverified 23 Jan 2022 ConBoekel

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User's notes

Note the strands spreading into the woodchips.

2 comments

Heino1 wrote:
   25 Jan 2022
I'd guess that the strands seemingly spreading onto the woodchips are the remnants of the trail that the mobile stage of this slime mould followed from that area of woodchip.
ConBoekel wrote:
   25 Jan 2022
Thank you. Fascinating.

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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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