QUODITCH EDUCATION DEVON

 QUODITCH MOOR NATURE RESERVE

SLIME MOULDS

(MYXOMYCETES)

Myxomycetes derive their name from the Greek myxa (slime) myketes (fungi)

Lycogala Epidendrum.
This fungus, which appears at various times of the year, starts off as a brightly coloured orange ball, with an internal latex the same colour.

But within a week or so it has gone a dull brown and the spores are a deep purple.
We would like to thank Clive Shirley of New Zealand for identifying this one for us.

There are other types of slime moulds

ACRASIOMYCETES (or Dictyostelids)

PROTOSTELIOMYCETES (or Protostelids)

as yet we have not photographed any but will add them as and when they occur.

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Page last updated 18th January 1999

REFERENCES

Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain and Europe, Roger Phillips   (Macmillan  Reference 1994)

Country Guides - Fungi of Britain and Northern Europe, Paul Sterry (Chancellor Press 1991)

A Magna Field Guide - Mushrooms, Mirko Svrcek (Magna Books 1994)

Encyclopaedia of Fungi - Gerrit J Keiser (Rebo Productions 1997)


Field Guide to the Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Europe - David Pegler (Kingfisher Books 1998)

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