Bath Wildlife Sightings
Befeldia maxima (a Slime-mould), Linear Park, Moorlands, Bath, ST7363
Date first seen
Date last seen
Frequency of Sighting
Species
Evidence
Spore-stage
Quantity
1 large colony
Locality
Linear Park, Moorlands, Bath
Habitat
Decomposing wood-chip from felled Ash tree
Environmental Conditions
Damp
Grid Reference
ST739637
Other Information
The world's largest slime mould: the gungy brown bodies on the top of the pile. Under the microscope of course they are spectacular with the spore-mass spaced out by a series of "lantern" bladders. Touching the fruit-bodies leaves a mass of "cocoa powder" on ones finger tips. The coin is a 2p piece.
Recorded by
Alan Feest
Identified by
Alan Feest
