Saturday, November 24, 2018
Friday, November 16, 2018
Minute moss mushrooms?
I was looking for interesting things growing on mossy rocks and I noticed what I thought was perhaps a patch of lichen.
On closer inspection it looks very much like tiny mushrooms are sprouting from the moss, but they're not mushrooms - it's a slime mould!
Diderma hemisphaericum
Diderma hemisphaericum |
Diderma hemisphaericum |
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Soggy firewood...
All of the images in this post (and the previous one) are of organisms that have made their home in a small pile of (mainly beech) logs that could really do with being moved to somewhere drier!
Photobombed by a pseudoscorpion!
"Let's Get Small"
Steve Martin
At first glance these looked like unremarkable small brown nodules growing on a beech log. When I peered closer they began to look more like chocolates! Then I noticed that one of these delicately dusted luxury truffles was sporting an assortment of translucent bright orange globules and 'hairy plumes' a little like dandelion seed heads, giving the thing an almost cactus-like form. I have absolutely know idea what it is. Fungus? Slime mold? Xenowonkia cocophoria?
I'd love to be able to get closer! If anyone could point me towards a very good deal on a very good microscope I'd be very interested.
Friday, November 9, 2018
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
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