Dacrymyces ? from my back catalogue

[Wood Wanderer]

Hi all

Been reviewing some old photos and came across the attached. I assume despite not being standard yellow this is still Dacrymyces stillatus, any thoughts or confirmation gratefully received. growing on dead wood probably beech

[flaxton]

This is a slime mould Lycogala either epidendrum or terreum.

Mal

[stickman]

Hi WW

With that red plasmodium, this should be Lycogala epidendrum rather than L.terrestre (We'll forgive Mal the spelling error - he must have been in a hurry) .

Cheers,
Nick

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by Wood Wanderer

Hi all

Been reviewing some old photos and came across the attached. I assume despite not being standard yellow this is still Dacrymyces stillatus, any thoughts or confirmation gratefully received. growing on dead wood probably beech

this clearly is a Lycogala, however it is worth pointing out that Dacrymyces is another of those genera (like Scutellinia) which suffers from almost invariably appearing in the popular books represented by a single species; this means that most records are dumped under D. stillatus; while a number of names previously recorded from Britain can be rejected there still appear to be 11 genuine Dacrymyces species recorded for these islands

it doesn't really matter that a proportion of the records of the (admittedly very common) D. stillatus will be incorrect, but it's worth remembering that without microscopy records are unconfirmed and could conceivably belong to one of the other species . . . .

Chris

[flaxton]

Originally Posted by stickman

Hi WW

With that red plasmodium, this should be Lycogala epidendrum rather than L.terrestre (We'll forgive Mal the spelling error - he must have been in a hurry) .

Cheers,
Nick

Terreum/terrestre is not a spelling mistake it's a senior moment

[Wood Wanderer]

Many thanks, no wonder I couldn't identify .... not even the correct genus. At least I was right to doubt my original ID so maybe I am learning !

[Ditiola]

Originally Posted by Wood Wanderer

Many thanks, no wonder I couldn't identify .... not even the correct genus. !

Not even in the same Kingdom

Lycocala as with all Myxomycetes are in the Kingdom Protozoa and therefore are not actually fungi, although they do look a bit like fungi

Peter

[Wood Wanderer]

Thanks Peter

Even more wrong than I thought then, oh well I can only improve with lots of luck and perhaps a long period of study !!!

Thanks for all the advice even when I am miles off course .......

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by Wood Wanderer

Thanks for all the advice even when I am miles off course .......

Don't worry, you'll meet a lot of us there.

Melanie