{"id":235,"date":"2007-08-14T22:41:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T04:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2007-08-14T22:45:07","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T04:45:07","slug":"beware-the-blob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Beware the blob!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been fairly wet for Denver recently. When that happens, I tend to see large mushrooms show up in my lawn (the largest ones here are about 6″ or so across):<\/p>\n

\"Lawn<\/p>\n

This evening, I needed to mow the lawn before it rained again. I found this beneath one of my rosebushes:<\/p>\n

\"Slime<\/p>\n

I figured it was some sort of fungus, so I did a websearch for photos I could match it with. I found an Australian page<\/a> (Adelaide area, which is interesting to me because I have relatives there) that identified it as a slime mould (his spelling).<\/p>\n

Given that, I found another page<\/a> that identifies it as an early stage of Fuligo Septica, commonly known as scrambled egg slime<\/a> or dog vomit slime mold<\/a>, and there are some disgusting photos of the later stages. It is, apparently, the only slime mold that can concentrate heavy metals<\/a> without damage to itself.<\/p>\n

What I found slightly unnerving is the statement that “This creeping fungus moves very slowly in amoeboid fashion.”<\/font><\/p>\n

Gaaah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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