yellow heather fungi poser

[diggleken]

Hi all,
this may have been right for pick up sticks, but its heather, so maybe that doesnt count.
Anyway, its another one thats got me beat..................not difficult.
It was on a few Heather bales we were using to gully block on the moor -they had been left up there exposed for a good few weeks on the moor at 1500ft, wet and cold, but this has appeared on some Heather twigs in the bales: Yellow, hints of ruddy, looking a bit like possibly a slime mould, at early stage, Physarum or fuligo maybe - but even that doesnt seem right to me.
Although it doesnt seem to have a structure and is a bit amorphous like a slime.

Grateful for any ideas/steer!
(yep, yorkshire Chris)
Cheers
Ken

[mollisia]

Hello,

to me that looks like a myxomycete. Myxos in their amoeboid stage may become a sclerotinized when wheather conditions are unfavourable. I think this could be what you show to us: A myxomycete on its way from plasmodium to the stable stage - in half way sclerotinizing because of unfavourable conditions (usually dryness).

best regards,
Andreas

[diggleken]

Hello Andreas,
thanks very much for helping out - it seems from you and a bit from me that a stage of a Myxo is what we have here - I'll keep some and hopefully see how it develops.
Cheers
Ken