Thanks Tanay, for the id as well as the interesting information! With regards
Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS-38677, USA. On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:42 PM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > *Lycogala epidendrum*, commonly known as *wolf's milk* or *toothpaste > slime*, is a cosmopolitan species of plasmoidal slime mould which is often > mistaken for a fungus. The aethalia, or fruting bodies, occur either > scattered or in groups on damp rotten wood, especially on large logs, from > June to November. These aethalia are small, pink to brown cushion-like > globs. They may excrete a pink paste if the outer wall is broken before > maturity. When mature, the colour tends to become more brownish. When not > fruiting, single celled individuals move about as very small, red > amoeba-like organisms called plasmodia, masses of protoplasm that engulf > bacteria, fungal and plant spores, protozoa, and particles of non-living > organic matter through phagocytosis . > > During the plasmodial stage, individuals are reddish in colour, but these > are almost never seen. When conditions change, the individuals aggregate by > means of chemical signaling to form an aethalium, or fruiting body. These > appear as small cushion-like blobs measuring about 0.3 cm to 1.5 cm in > diameter. Colour is quite variable, ranging from pinkish-gray to > yellowish-brown or greenish-black, with mature individuals tending towards > the darker end. They may be either round or somewhat compressed with a > warted or rough texture. While immature they are filled with a pink, > paste-like fluid. With maturity the fluid becomes a powdery mass of minute > gray spores. The spores measure 6 to 7.5 µm and are round in shape with a > netted texture and appearing ochre to lavender in colour. The > pseudocapillitia, sterile elements in the spore mass, are long, flattened, > branching tubes with transverse wrinkles and folds. > Regards > Tanay > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:43 AM, R. Vijayasankar < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Since it was not our 'focus', i could not note any information and also >> didn't place any scale to measure it! >> >> Ff possible, pl id it. Thanks. >> >> With regards >> >> Vijayasankar Raman >> National Center for Natural Products Research, >> The University of Mississippi, >> Oxford, MS-38677, USA. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Tanay Bose > +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) > 9830439691(Mobile) > 9674221362 (Mobile) > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
