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LOCATION:
The Outpost Area
DATE FOUND:
Day 20 – 17 December 2023
All along a fallen Alder trunk in a very damp area.
Found with Phlebia radiata, Crepidotus, Daedalopsis tricolor and Exidia nucleata.
I found a veiny plasmodium covering the wood or moss on all sides.
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Other forms were hanging off the bottom: spherical or ovoid sporangia on thin yellow stems.
These sporangia were speckled, but ‘matte’ where they joined to the stems.
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Some were various shades of blueish grey.
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In the photo below you can see where the plasmodium is presumedly consuming the corticioid fungus Phlebia radiata.
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On Day 21, I found them again and they were in light bluish-grey sporangia, none of the yellow forms left.
Plasmodium was still around in some areas, forming clusters for sporangia.
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On Day 26 (28th 01 2024), some more yellow sporangia were growing:
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