Sighting 4575921
A slime mould at Box Cutting Rainforest Walk
Identification history
| Physarum sp. (genus) | 14 Jun 2024 | Teresa |
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User's notes
Physarum polychephalum is one of the most common myxos to be found in our local forests. Here you can see the 'veins' clearly, as it finds its feeding runs across the decaying wood and it consumes the fungi and the surrounding bacteria present.
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Location information
- Maps Bodalla State Forest
- Places Kianga, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- Teresa Recorded by
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Slime Moulds Teresa South Coast NatureMapr
Species information
- Physarum sp. (genus) Scientific name
- A slime mould Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Cosmopolitan
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 960.4m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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