Myxomycota (81 images)
'............ the slime moulds are liable to ambush you with their beauty and anchor you right there with delight...' Kitty Griffith, Boston Mycological Club

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APPENDIX

A-C D-F H-L M-W

Arcyria cinerea *** 'Grey Arcyria - solitary sporangia
Arcyria cinerea Grey Arcyria' - fascicled sporangia UPGRADED 2009
Arcyria denudata #2 sporangia
Arcyria denudata *** capillitium UPGRADED 2009
Arcyria incarnata 'Rose Pink Arcyria' - sporangia
Arcyria nutans 'Golden Yellow Arcyria' - sporangia
Badhamia utricularis *** mature sporangia (photo: Greg Thorn)
Badhamia utricularis yellow plasmodium on log
Badhamia utricularis young sporangia
Brefeldia maxima mature fruitbody
Brefeldia maxima young fruitbody
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa*** poroid variety - honey-combed domes
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa poroid variety - honey-combed domes UPGRADED 2009
Ceratiomyca fruticulosa finger-like columns
Comatricha typhoides *** sporangia UPGRADED 2009
Craterium leucocephalum goblet-shaped sporangia
Cribraria intricata sporangia UPGRADED 2009
Cribraria intricata *** micrograph (low power)
Cribraria intricata *** micrograph (high power)
Diachea leucopodia iridescent columnar sporangia
Diachea leucopodia skinny 'matchsticks' on orchid seedling
Diachea splendens iridescent spherical sporangia
Dictyaethalium plumbeum pseudoaethalium
Dictydium cancellatum *** sporangia of Chinese lantern SM
Dictydium cancellatum *** 'arty' shot
Dictydium cancellatum *** micrograph of sporangium showing ribs
Dictydium cancellatum *** higher mag showing connectives between ribs
Diderma crustaceum sporangia
Didymium sp.*** germinating spores with myxamoebae
Enteridium splendens aethalium with white hypothallus
Fuligo septica very young flowers of sulphur stage
Fuligo septica young aethalium
Fuligo septica plasmodium
Fuligo septica mature aethalium UPGRADED 2009
Hemitrichia calyculata *** mature sporangia
Hemitrichia calyculata young and mature sporangia UPGRADED 2009
Hemitrichia clavata *** mature sporangia
Hemitrichia serpula mature plasmodiocarp
Lamproderma sp. sporangia showing radiating capillitial threads
Leocarpus fragilis *** sporangia on living plant UPGRADED 2009
Leocarpus fragilis young sporangia - yellow (photo: Brian Shelton)
Leocarpus fragilis mature sporangia
Lycogala epidendrum micrograph showing pseudocapillitum
Lycogala epidendrum mature aethalia
Lycogala epidendrum young aethalia
Lycogala epidendrum 'wolf's milk' SM, blood-red contents of aethalium
Lycogala epidendrum *** mooned by a slime mould - different!
Lycogala flavofuscum fused aethalia
Metatrichia vesparium *** 'wasp nest' SM - sporangia
Metatrichia vesparium *** capillitium and spores
Mucilago crustacea 'crusty white' SM? - aethalium
Oligonema flavidum compacted sporangia in one layer
PHOTOGRAPHING SLIME MOULDS
Physarella oblonga *** 'daffodil' SM?
Physarum bivalve 'bivalved' SM?
Physarum cinereum 'lawn' slime mould
Physarum contextum angular-compressed sessile sporangia
Physarum polycephalum plasmodium on old mushroom
Physarum polycephalum test tube
Physarum polycephalum petri dish 1, plasmodium 3 h
Physarum polycephalum petri dish 2, plasmodium 18 h
Physarum polycephalum petri dish #3, sporangia................................................... UPGRADED 2009
SM Miscellaneous # 1 fruiting on seedling
SM Miscellaneous #2 *** plasmodium smothering conifer seedling
SM Miscellaneous # 3 plasmodium on log
SM Miscellaneous #4 *** macro scene on old log
Stemonitis axifera sporangia
Stemonitis axifera fused sporangia
Stemonitis axifera sporangia from mushroom house
Stemonitis axifera capillitium and columella
Stemonitis fusca*** capillitium and spores
Trichia favogenia compacted sporangia
Trichia *** rope-like capillitium
Tubifera ferruginosa *** young pseudoaethalia
Tubifera ferruginosa older pseudoaethalia
Willkommlangea reticulata *** unusual red-dotted plasmodiocarp
Stemonitales - unknown young sporangia in coalescing clumps
Slime mould plasmodium - white