A slime mould - Trichia decipiens
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A slime mould - Trichia decipiens
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 6 Aug 2016
The setting is Renton Wood, and the piece of wood was on Image Each of the stalked orange blobs is a developing sporangium (spore-producing structure); when mature, in a day or two, they will be much the same shape (globose, on a stalk), but the colour will have changed, and they will no longer look glutinous. These ones became dark brown, and then, as the peridium (thin outer layer) broke up, became lighter: Image
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Image Location
Latitude
55.969099
Longitude
-4.589563