White slime mold

hmmmm all of the white ones may possibly be Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa in different stages

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

Sharing this site:
http://www.flevopix.nl/fungi/

It's dutch and deals with local species only, but still it has english and binomial names, and having so many photos on a single page has often put me on the right track. Posted 10 years ago
1. morpheme
  
  Lion
  
  any resource is a good one with this kind of thing - not too much around. I found what *could* be a great resource, http://slimemold.uark.edu/index.htm but the link to the photo gallery is not working :( Posted 10 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    That's a pity! Perhaps offtopic, but I recently bought a book with all species of fungi known to appear in my country (of which many are found all over the world). It has hundreds of pages with great photos. The book however, guides you through identification using keys. I need about 10 or so of these "keys" to let it guide me to the right page. Problem is, I usually have only 1 or 2. These keys are attributes of the species, like "what did the spores look like", "how did it smell", "what happened if you broke the skin", etc.
    
    My point is that the book is useless to me because I do not "collect" the specimen in the field correctly. Posted 10 years ago
  2. 1. morpheme
      
      Lion
      
      Yeah - a lot of the keys I use online also ask about smell, taste (no way!!), spores, bruising etc. I'm often, if not usually, hiking in places where picking is frowned upon if not outright forbidden and my personal preference is to not destroy something just to id it… Posted 10 years ago
    2. 1. Ferdy Christant
        
        Lion
        
        Same here, I never pick it. Although I did hear that it is relatively harmless if done right, since you only pick the fruiting body, not the actual fungi or spores itself. I hope I said that right :) Posted 10 years ago

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