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17-08-2009, 10:06 PM
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| | | Lots of teenies - some sort of slime mould?
Right, I'm completely stumped on these, if you'll forgive the pun. 
They were all over an old stump (possibly two adjacent stumps or two bits of the same tree?) which was probably once Beech, on a slope in a Cotswold wood next to the path. One part was also surrounded at the very base by a clump of Armillaria sp. and there were three small Armillaria fruit bodies growing from the soil about two feet away. All i could see with my not-very-good eyes were a load of tiny whitish (beigey-yellow in deeper shade) pin-heads. The photo doesn't improve matters much but shows minute pimply or hairy blobs with stems. A bit like miniscule puffballs....
I do have another (probably worse) pic which does show them slightly larger if that might help?
To give an idea of how small these things were, there's a bit of dead Beech leaf in the top right of the photo and a small Ivy leaf on the centre-right. 
Can anyone suggest what they might be, please?
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17-08-2009, 10:41 PM
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| | | Re: Lots of teenies - some sort of slime mould?
They're possibly immature Mycena or Coprinus  |
17-08-2009, 11:10 PM
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| | | Re: Lots of teenies - some sort of slime mould?
in the words of the old Delta Blues song:
" jus' 'cos it's smawl don' mean it ain't no slaahm-mold"
Aaahm thinkin'
(sorry ) I'm thinking - it could be the early stage of a Lycoperdon species
Chris
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17-08-2009, 11:12 PM
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| | | Re: Lots of teenies - some sort of slime mould?
C. disseminatus?
Mal |
17-08-2009, 11:16 PM
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| | | Re: Lots of teenies - some sort of slime mould?
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Originally Posted by flaxton  C. disseminatus?
Mal | Definitely a good possibility.
Chris, if you click to image to enlarge, you can make out separation between cap and stipe |
17-08-2009, 11:18 PM
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| | | Re: Lots of teenies - some sort of slime mould?
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Originally Posted by flaxton C. disseminatus?
Mal | possibly Mal (I've got my serious hat on now  ), but there seems to be a lot happening on those caps . . . powdery covering an' all . . . . uh-uh - I'm off again 
cheers
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17-08-2009, 11:19 PM
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| | | Re: Lots of teenies - some sort of slime mould?
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Originally Posted by NickCantle Definitely a good possibility.
Chris, if you click to image to enlarge, you can make out separation between cap and stipe | kinda
C
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17-08-2009, 11:24 PM
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| | | Re: Lots of teenies - some sort of slime mould?
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Originally Posted by Chris Yeates kinda
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19-08-2009, 09:37 AM
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| | | Re: Lots of teenies - some sort of slime mould?
Sorry, was out all day yesterday and didn't put the PC on at all (spent half the night suffering withdrawal symptoms!   ).
OK, this may or may not help - the other rubbish photo - 
I couldn't see any detail on these at all while we were in the woods as they were so tiny and I'm afraid the photo won't help much.
The main thing was they were so very, very small....
I'll see if there's any chance we can go back for another look sometime and see what (if anything) had happened.
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19-08-2009, 03:47 PM
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| | | Re: Lots of teenies - some sort of slime mould?
It looks more like Lycoperdon there than in your other image If it is, it's sure to be L. pyriforme. | | | |
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