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24-11-2007, 11:30 PM
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| | | Re: Brilliant white, tapioca slime mould - in need of ID pls.
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25-11-2007, 08:35 AM
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| | | Re: Brilliant white, tapioca slime mould - in need of ID pls.
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Originally Posted by ladyhawk  not too sure but could be Enteridium lycoperdon | I don't think it is Enteridium lycoperdon, which grows on dead wood rather than on vegetation, and has a different appearance.
I think the photos probably all show the plasmodium stage of Mucilago crustacea, before it has differentiated into the various parts of the spore-producing structures.
Ken
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25-11-2007, 09:23 AM
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| | | Re: Brilliant white, tapioca slime mould - in need of ID pls.
Thank you all for your suggestions, information and comments - Yes Myxos are a truly extraordinary lifeform aren't they.
You may be interested to see a series of photos posted on the Photomacrgraphy2 Forum by Doug Breda showing movement and changes of a slime mould over a 4 day period. Please be sure to click on his day1 thru day3 links and read his comments and replies: :: View topic - Myxos New Hampshire Style "Day Four"
For my part, I have come across this species a couple of times this year and if lucky enough to find again will make every effort to return the next day(s) to photograph any changes.
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25-11-2007, 12:24 PM
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| | | Re: Brilliant white, tapioca slime mould - in need of ID pls.
Truly fascinating!!! I'll have to 'get into' slime mould for next year as they look like they could be rather interesting to learn about.
Nick
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25-11-2007, 02:50 PM
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| | | Re: Brilliant white, tapioca slime mould - in need of ID pls.
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Originally Posted by Bruce Williams Thanks Pauline - Here's your image from the Archive Gallery: 
Looking closely at your photo I think it could well be a different species of slime mould as the individual "bodies" have more of a jellybean shape and I'm guessing are somewhat larger than those in my image.
However one of the fascinating things about Myxos are their amazing ability to move and change shape.
Bruce | Thankyou Bruce - you're a wizz - I couldn't make it appear! Actually for size it was tiny and was taken using the scanner (way back in the days before I had a decent macro capability). The old scanner a Mustek - now long defunct - would reproduce excellent images which could then be cropped and blown up for even more detail. I only found out how much detail there was in this myxe after it had been on the scanner! So we're going back to around 1999 and I haven't come across since until I saw you're pics - which had me rushing into my archives!
In fact from looking again just now at yours I can tell they are about the same size from memory cos of the mosses and stuff in your pics
Pauline
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25-11-2007, 03:00 PM
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| | | Re: Brilliant white, tapioca slime mould - in need of ID pls.
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Originally Posted by Bruce Williams Thank you all for your suggestions, information and comments - Yes Myxos are a truly extraordinary lifeform aren't they.
You may be interested to see a series of photos posted on the Photomacrgraphy2 Forum by Doug Breda showing movement and changes of a slime mould over a 4 day period. Please be sure to click on his day1 thru day3 links and read his comments and replies: :: View topic - Myxos New Hampshire Style "Day Four"
For my part, I have come across this species a couple of times this year and if lucky enough to find again will make every effort to return the next day(s) to photograph any changes.
Bruce | WOW! That's absolutely fascinating ..............
Pauline |
26-11-2007, 09:29 AM
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| | | Re: Brilliant white, tapioca slime mould - in need of ID pls.
Nick - I'll keep an eye out for your Myxo posts in the future. Question: Is there a best time of year for finding slime moulds or are they an all year round life form? Your PS has been noted . Pauline - You're most welcome. I applaud your obvious enthusiasm/love for nature - immediately imagined you hunting frantically through your archives ....and btw I'm most impressed by just how much detail your old Mustek scanner revealed!
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26-11-2007, 10:23 AM
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Pauline is great
As for the slime moulds, I really do know naff all  |
26-11-2007, 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Williams Nick - I'll keep an eye out for your Myxo posts in the future. Question: Is there a best time of year for finding slime moulds or are they an all year round life form? Your PS has been noted . Pauline - You're most welcome. I applaud your obvious enthusiasm/love for nature - immediately imagined you hunting frantically through your archives ....and btw I'm most impressed by just how much detail your old Mustek scanner revealed!
Bruce | Quote:
Originally Posted by NickCantle Pauline is great
As for the slime moulds, I really do know naff all | Thank you Bruce and Nick
That Mustek really was a capable beast - it out performed digi cameras at the time - the Epson (for tranny copying) I got after with an update was very good for trannys but was useless for 'live scanning'! It was a virtually unknown way of getting pics at the time (and I took the idea from friend who had been experimenting with the scanner and large club (fungi!) and expanded on it. I ended up writing an article for The Field Mycologist in how best to go about it back in Jan 2002........ and I haven't been famous since 
Pauline
And PS - we're still no nearer knowing what the mystery myxe is - tho knowing Ken I'll put money on it that his suggestion willl be bob-on!
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