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LOCATION:
Trail End Area
DATE FOUND:
Day 1 – 12 August 2023
On rotting wood on a rotting log pile, these long, elongated sporangia were anywhere from light grey to dark grey and had similarly-coloured stems.
The spores were ejected, supposedly, out of holes at the top of the “head”.
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I saw them again on Day 3 in large groups, ranging from white to dark grey.
They grew with toher slime moulds, namely Fuligo septica.
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On Day 4, I spotted a newer group of immature, purely white sporangia.
The original groups remained much the same.
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By Day 5, their forms were less distinct and more like a spore mass.
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On Day 6, they had fully turned into spore masses.
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