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Trichia botrytis (J.F. Gmel.) Pers. (a slime mould)

Date: 2 April 2000
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 02/04/2000[L]
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State: Sporocarp
Record Summary: on dead fallen rotten Beech trunk
Associated organism: on dead, fallen, white-rotten trunk of Fagus sylvatica
Identification Notes: Capillitium: unbranched, ends long tapered, c. 4 spirals.
Spores: 11-12µm, ochraceous. Stalk filled with granular material and spores.
More petalloid than usual for this species.

Images etc

naked eye photograph Colony - top view 500 by 375 pixels
magnified photograph Dehisced - side view 500 by 268 pixels
magnified photograph Dehisced - top view 500 by 401 pixels
naked eye photograph Ripe fruitbodies 500 by 250 pixels
naked eye photograph Ripe fruitbodies 500 by 216 pixels
naked eye photograph Ripe fruitbodies 500 by 230 pixels
magnified photograph Side view - close-up 500 by 290 pixels
magnified photograph Side view - close-up 500 by 439 pixels
magnified photograph Side view 58 Kb 477 by 318 pixels
magnified photograph Side view 500 by 401 pixels
magnified photograph Top view 500 by 400 pixels
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microscope photograph Elaters 500 by 401 pixels
microscope photograph Elaters 500 by 401 pixels
microscope photograph Elaters 500 by 401 pixels
microscope photograph Elaters 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Material from inside stalk 500 by 400 pixels
microscope photograph Spores & elaters 500 by 401 pixels
microscope photograph Spores & elaters 500 by 401 pixels
microscope photograph Spores & elaters 500 by 401 pixels
microscope photograph Spores 500 by 223 pixels
microscope photograph Stalk 400 by 500 pixels

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