Gray slime mold plasmodium

I'm not sure it's even possible to ID many slime molds in this stage.. I'd be curious to see what this looks like in a few days.
Cribraria sp. maybe Cribraria argillacea - Zombie slime mold

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

Bizarre! Did you touch it, is it as wet as it looks? Also, does it emit any smell? Posted 9 years ago
1. morpheme
  
  Lion
  
  It was quite wet, but tough and sticky enough to cling tightly to the stick it was on - I didn't stick my finger right in it... but I did move the stick a little. This is the stage that give slime molds their name. I get the feeling that this plasmodium was coming together and getting ready to create fruiting bodies. I don't recall that it smelled like anything. Posted 9 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    I have so many ideas for new lists, but never get around in creating them. Note to myself is that we should create a "scifi" list, with alien-like life forms right here on earth :) Posted 9 years ago

The zombie slime mold

Cribraria argillacea (Pers.) Pers. Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 91. 1794
Stemonitis argillacea Pers.; J. F. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 2: 1469. Cribraria Micropus Schrad. Nov. Gen. PI. 3. 1797. Trichia argillacea Poir. in Lam. Encyc. 8: 55. 1808.
1791 Sporangia dull ochraceous to olivaceous, globose to obovate, 0.5-1 mm. in diameter, sessile or short-stipitate, densely crowded or closely gregarious; peridium fugacious above except for a weak, easily detached net without nodal thickenings; lower portion remaining.. more

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Similar species: Cribrariales

Species identified by morpheme