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04-15-2011, 04:08 PM
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Lichen blooming?
took these last summer. it's the top of a really old cut-off telephone pole near my house.
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04-15-2011, 05:51 PM
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British soldier lichen??? Look it up and see if that matches. Not blooms as lichens are not flowering plants. Actually, and you probably already know, they are fungus with algae living symbiotically in them.
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04-15-2011, 05:52 PM
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thanks for the clarification!
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04-15-2011, 06:46 PM
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Really cool, aren't they? We came across slime mold in the forest in December, that looks like clumps of frosty snow. It had us puzzled when we first saw it, because we don't get much snow here, and there wasn't any around.
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04-15-2011, 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Vanda lover
Really cool, aren't they? We came across slime mold in the forest in December, that looks like clumps of frosty snow. It had us puzzled when we first saw it, because we don't get much snow here, and there wasn't any around.
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Weird!
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04-15-2011, 10:35 PM
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Very cool pictures...
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04-16-2011, 12:50 AM
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If you google slime mold images, it's incredible what varieties there are! They are quite beautiful.
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04-16-2011, 03:33 AM
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oh dang! now youve got me wondering about the feasibility of slime mold collecting  |
04-16-2011, 01:02 PM
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oh dang! now youve got me wondering about the feasibility of slime mold collecting |
LOL cant collect them they tend to actually crawl away ....one of the few fungi that are actually mobile |
04-16-2011, 08:59 PM
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oh dang! now youve got me wondering about the feasibility of slime mold collecting |
I had a professor in grad school who discovered an entire new class of slime molds- in Tahiti! He was always doing field work on them. I wonder why? |
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