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RE: The Amateur Mycologist #31 - Metatrichia vesparium - Behold Some Serious Slime Mold Weirdness
There's a lot going on in this photo
It looks like a cake :) Okay, I should sleep more :p
More seriously, I was wondering, when you don't know some stuff, is there any place where you could go and ask for the question?
Several - i just joined the Slime Mold Collective - facebook has the mycological society of ny - and reddit is also forthcoming. Often the gaps in my knowledge turn into edits subsequent to posting - thats what happened last two posts actually - tworeddit users who know a ton about slime molds told me where i was wrong and that resulted in a ton of edits.
I expect a similar thing to happen here in the next couple of days :)
Having some comment issues - sorry - i meant to add that these other resources are available when the books and online resources fail to completely edify.
Case in point - I referenced this to members of the NYMS and one of them looked up the species in an obscure book on North american slime molds which confirmed that the spores of this species have been seen to be Subglobose. This clarifies my final big hesitation about the species and confirms my ID. So i'm going to reedit this whole post to make it into a species post and add the new information source.
Similarly the white stuff is likely to be a form of resupinate fungi - which came after the slime mold sporulated. Also a tidbit from a NYMS member that bears out as a good hypothesis.