Fuligo septica

Scrambled egg slime at Yarralumla, ACT

Fuligo septica at Yarralumla, ACT - 23 Jan 2022
Fuligo septica at Yarralumla, ACT - 23 Jan 2022
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Identification history

Fuligo septica 25 Jan 2022 Heino1
Unidentified 23 Jan 2022 ConBoekel

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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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  • 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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