A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
physarum psittacinum
Plasmodium yellow or orange. Sporocarps rarely sessile or approaching plasmodiocarpous, scattered or gregarious, stalked and then 0.8-1.2 mm tall. Stalk rugose, limeless, orange, orange-red, fulvous or yellow. Hypothallus small, concolorous with the stalk. Sporotheca globose, depressed-globose or reniform, 0.5-0.8 mm diam. Peridium bronze or iridescent blue, ± mottled with flecks of orange lime. Columella absent. Capillitium dense, persistent, the threads hyaline to dark, often flattened, the brilliant orange nodes numerous and often confluent in the centre. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores pale brown, minutely but distinctly warted, the warts often in groups, 8-10 µm diam.
Oranjesteelkalkkopje (dutch)
( http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?searc... ), ( http://myxomycet.com.ua/eng/taxa/physaru... ),
1 Comment
Nice!
U should put it on the mission: slime moulds of the world.