Egg-shell Slime Mould - Leocarpus fragilis
The bright yellow images show the slime mould, or plasmodium stage. When they mature they become dry and turn brown then grey and produce blackish spores. They have a very brittle outer wall that cracks and fractures into angular pieces.
Pine needles, logs, stumps, debris or sometimes they climb living plants.
Autumn.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Uncommon or under-recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
02 November 2011
slime mould, or plasmodium stage
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
02 November 2011
slime mould, or plasmodium stage.
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
02 November 2011
Mike Higgott
County Hall
16 December 2016
Mike Higgott
County Hall
15 December 2016
Mike Higgott
County Hall
23 December 2016
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Slime Moulds
- Kingdom:
- Protozoa
- Order:
- Physarida
- Family:
- Physaraceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 8
- First record:
- 02/11/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 21/12/2017 (Higgott, Mike)
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Mike Higgott
County Hall
22 December 2016
Mike Higgott
County Hall
21 December 2017
Mike Higgott
County Hall
16 December 2016
Mike Higgott
County Hall
22 December 2016
Mike Higgott
County Hall
20 December 2016
