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Description
Lycogala sp. Mount Lemmon, Santa Catalina Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA. 4 August 2007.
How can you tell it's epidendrum and not flavofuscum? They are both supposed to occur in the area. To me the cortex looks pretty smooth and thin, which would be characteristic of flavofuscum, but I really don't have enough experience with the genus to know if it's smooth enough to make the call.
Hi Treegrow,
You rase an interesting point if the cortext is nearly smoth then it would be L. flavofuscum. As to other diffrances L. flavofuscum is larger more then 15 mm. while L. epidendrum is less but grater then 3 mm..
When it comes to identifying slime moulds and fungi from photos it all comes down to the quality of the photo and a good description. We also tend to be bias towareds what we ar familiar with.
Its unfortunit that in gereral there is a lack of even a basic description of an organisium its habitat and substrait on inaturalist making it difficult to give good guess :)
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How can you tell it's epidendrum and not flavofuscum? They are both supposed to occur in the area. To me the cortex looks pretty smooth and thin, which would be characteristic of flavofuscum, but I really don't have enough experience with the genus to know if it's smooth enough to make the call.
Hi Treegrow,
You rase an interesting point if the cortext is nearly smoth then it would be L. flavofuscum. As to other diffrances L. flavofuscum is larger more then 15 mm. while L. epidendrum is less but grater then 3 mm..
When it comes to identifying slime moulds and fungi from photos it all comes down to the quality of the photo and a good description. We also tend to be bias towareds what we ar familiar with.
Its unfortunit that in gereral there is a lack of even a basic description of an organisium its habitat and substrait on inaturalist making it difficult to give good guess :)
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