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Observation: Stemonitis splendens Rostaf (11073)
About Stemonitis splendens Rostaf
When: 2008-09-13
Collection location: Strouds Run State Park, Athens, Ohio, USA [Click for map]
Who: Dan Molter (shroomydan)
No herbarium specimen
Species Lists:
Myxomycota – Slime Molds
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Proposed Name User Community Vote
  shroomydan   85% (1)   Eye3Eyes3
Recognized by sight: In less than twenty four hours these morphed into the familiar chocolate tube slime.

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Created: 2008-09-15 21:44:12 WEST (+0100)
By: Debbie Viess (amanitarita)
Summary: Wow!

Talk about amazing transformations….

202406

Created: 2008-09-15 18:41:15 WEST (+0100)
By: Jason Hollinger (jason)
Summary: Never seen them so young!

Amazing! Thanks for getting the before and after photos. Incredible how much slimes change in just a few days. I think you may have the only shots on the web of this lovely thing while immature. Certainly some of the best!

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Created: 2008-09-15 16:26:21 WEST (+0100)
By: Debbie Viess (amanitarita)
Summary: Very nice find and photos!

…I would love to see these further on in their development…

202406

Created: 2008-09-14 04:37:56 WEST (+0100)
By: Paul Derbyshire (Twizzler)
Summary: Possible identifications

If they were liquidy and melty on contact, Myxomycota.

If they were brittle, Clavaria vermicularis or a close relative

Else, a Tremellodendron.

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Created: 2008-09-14 04:23:25 WEST (+0100)
Last modified: 2010-07-01 18:58:50 WET (+0000)
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This photo was taken about twenty hours after the others.