Specimen #12 Fuligo Specta Slime Mold Sample

Figure 1: Fuligo Specta. Yellow in color.
powdery like substance.

Name: Fuligo Specta 
Common Name: Scramble Egg Slime
Family: Physaraceae
Collected Date: 11/7/16
Habitat: Found on rotten wood or liter or plants
Location: Hiram College Campus
Description: Can be white to yellow- brown in color. Transform into a sponge-like aethalium analogous to the spore-bear fruiting body. Spores have a two-layered wall and dense outer layer with spines and a fibrous inner layer.
Key Used: http://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?guide=Mycetozoa_GSMNP
Keying Steps:
1. Fruiting Body type Aethalium
2. Spore mass color bright, dark, and light depending on the type of fuligo specta
3. Peridium can have a lime and some can be found without
4. There can be a true capillitium present while some will not show this particular characteristic