Return of the Slime Mould (for ID.)

[Lancashire Lad]

Originally Posted by CapAndBracket

...The best match i could come up with is Tubifera ferruginosa....

Hi CapAndBracket,
From what I can find on the net, Tubifera ferruginosa has the common name Red Raspberry Slime, because the young fruiting bodies are pink - through coral red colour, (Presumably from "Ferrug- meaning "rusty" or "rust"), and turning blackish on maturity.

My find didn't have any hint of pink/red at all, being creamy white throughout. When split across to give a cross section, it was virtually solid, (Looking rather like a block of chocolate), with no hint of "cigar" shaped individual fruit bodies as would be expected for Tubifera.

I still think it looks more like Brefeldia maxima.

It certainly appears to be very similar to these pics of Brefeldia: -
Google Image Result for http://thump01.pbase.com/u13/crocodile/small/42501708.brefeldia1.jpg

Rather than these of Tubifera: -
Google Image Result for http://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/club%20and%20coral/images/Tubifera%20ferrCigarsGE.jpg

But I appreciate we will never know for sure what it is without microscopy.

Regards
Mike.

[Lancashire Lad]

Originally Posted by Lancashire Lad

....When split across to give a cross section, it was virtually solid, (Looking rather like a block of chocolate), with no hint of "cigar" shaped individual fruit bodies as would be expected for Tubifera....

Should have said "When the blackish mature specimen was split across...".

Regards
Mike.

[CapAndBracket]

Looking at those images it does look like you are right and thanks for
that, (the species isn't in my key ).

Cheers J.P.

[Lancashire Lad]

Originally Posted by CapAndBracket

Looking at those images it does look like you are right and thanks for
that, (the species isn't in my key ).

Cheers J.P.

No - My thanks to you, and to everyone else who responds. If it were not for the replies from yourself and others, I wouldn't have had a clue where to look in the first place. One thing I have learned as my interest in fungi grows, is that no-one, no matter how experienced they are, will ever know all there is to know about the fungi kingdom.

In this particular case, it was Flaxton who put me on the right track by suggesting (in my original thread) that it might be an early Stemonitis, and Brefeldia is indeed of the Order Stemonitales - Family Stemonitaceae.

Regards
Mike.

[PMG]

This took my attention as I feel I have seen something like it - I even have pics of it when its like white eggs clustered wetly together..........

Bruce Ing has this to say:

....occurs frequently at Loggerheads (Wales) ......stumps look like as if covered with bucketfuls of cold porridge - covering as much a s a square metre and up to one metre thick ...... Brefeldia maxima ...... and may have weighed 20kg!

......plasmodium white, becoming violet and finally black as the spores develop.

Starts off looking like porridge and ends up looking like soot!!

Thanks for that Mike - my pic has sat here without a name for 9 years!!!!

Pauline

[Lancashire Lad]

Originally Posted by CapAndBracket

....and thanks for
that....Cheers J.P.

Originally Posted by PMG

....Thanks for that Mike....Pauline

Wow - Me getting thanks from two experienced fungi fiends.
You'll have to stop this people, or I'll be getting big headed.

I might have to promote myself to Mike-ologist.

Regards
Mike.

[PMG]

Originally Posted by Lancashire Lad

Wow - Me getting thanks from two experienced fungi fiends.
You'll have to stop this people, or I'll be getting big headed.

I might have to promote myself to Mike-ologist.

Regards
Mike.

Well I can't think of anyone more qualified to be a Mike-ologist than you

Pauline

[Jim Ford]

When I saw "Return of the Slime..." in the side bar, I thought Cecil Parkinson was going back into politics!

Jim