white florette fungus

[diggleken]

Is this ceratiomyxa fructiculosa? the white one that is - the other is metatrichia floriformis I think.
Found under a piece of rotting oak bark, very tiny, less than pin head size.
Cheers
Ken

[Lancashire Lad]

Hi Ken,

This does look similar to the photo on page 375 in Jordan. Looking closely though, yours seems to have small round caps whereas the ceratiomyxa fruticulosa in Jordan don't.

It looks to me like yours might be some miniscule type of fungi that are actually growing on some of the metatrichia floriformis fruit bodies.

There also seems to be a lot of individual "stems"? of the small white stuff directly on the wood substrate as well.

This is one for those with a lot more knowledge than I have, that's for sure.

Regards
Mike.

[diggleken]

Hi Mike, your thinking is similar to mine (worried now?), but I suspect they arent fully developed from the rounded ends into the shapes in Jordan, which isnt that close up anyway.
Wait for the experts?
Cheers
Ken

[CapAndBracket]

There is a fungus that atacks slime moulds (Metarichia and others).
Polycephalomyces tomentosus.



Arrowed in image, from the another myxomycete thread last summer.

Cheers J.P.

[diggleken]

cheers JP, doesnt look quite right though - I think this is going to be another of my 'need to go back to' ones to watch developments!
thanks for advice again,
Ken

[Chris Yeates]

hi

I think JP is spot on (especially as I note that Polycephalomyces tomentosus and P. ovalisporum have now been synonymised)

cheers

Chris