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Description
(Not a) Fungus growing on the base of a (red or Norway?) maple
No not a fungus looks more like a slime mould to me, even looks like the plasmodium has climbed up from the forest floor before fruiting. My best guess with the yellow colouring would be Fuligo septica.
Cool-thanks. I've seen F. septica on wood mulch (I assume that's where most Americans know it from), but didn't know it can grow on live trees. Myxonz, does it find nutrients on the tree trunk, or does it feed in the leaf litter and, as you said, climb up only to fruit?
Wood mulch is were you see it most in urban habitats. In forest habitats I almost always find it on the tops of logs, its a species that seams to likes to climb high before fruiting. This will give its spore an advantage when it comes to dispersal but decaying wood and leaf litter are its normal substrate. I think finding it on a living tree is just an oddity or a tree of opportunity :) There are other myxo that do live on the bark of living trees but these are very small and not normal seen in the field.
Comments & Identifications
No not a fungus looks more like a slime mould to me, even looks like the plasmodium has climbed up from the forest floor before fruiting. My best guess with the yellow colouring would be Fuligo septica.
Cool-thanks. I've seen F. septica on wood mulch (I assume that's where most Americans know it from), but didn't know it can grow on live trees. Myxonz, does it find nutrients on the tree trunk, or does it feed in the leaf litter and, as you said, climb up only to fruit?
Wood mulch is were you see it most in urban habitats. In forest habitats I almost always find it on the tops of logs, its a species that seams to likes to climb high before fruiting. This will give its spore an advantage when it comes to dispersal but decaying wood and leaf litter are its normal substrate. I think finding it on a living tree is just an oddity or a tree of opportunity :) There are other myxo that do live on the bark of living trees but these are very small and not normal seen in the field.
Thanks, I'll start looking for it more.
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