Dog Sick Slime Mould - Mucilago crustacea
The fruiting body matures through yellow to become white, its interior finally blackening with age. The newly emerged plasmodia resembles a dog?s vomit on the grass but within 24 hours the calcareous cortex has hardened and the black spore mass has matured.
Usually on grass.
September is the peak month.
This slime mould moves slowly to new food.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Andy's Rutland
Gunnel Lane Meadow-Empingham
30 November 2018
Alan Semper
Harby grass verge to footpath
16 November 2011
Andy's Rutland
Gunnel Lane Meadow-Empingham
30 December 2018
Andy's Rutland
Gunnel Lane Meadow-Empingham
30 December 2018
Margaret McLoughlin
Charnwood Lodge NNR
28 September 2017
Kate Nightingale
Charnwood Lodge
15 October 2015
Kate Nightingale
near Swithland Woods
20 December 2015
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Species profile
- Common names
- Dog Vomit Slime Mould
- Species group:
- Slime Moulds
- Kingdom:
- Protozoa
- Order:
- Stemonitida
- Family:
- Didymiaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 41
- First record:
- 08/09/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 27/10/2024 (Nicholls, David)
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Margaret McLoughlin
Charnwood Lodge NNR
28 September 2017
Margaret McLoughlin
Charnwood Lodge NNR
28 September 2017
Andy's Rutland
Gunnel Lane Meadow-Empingham
30 December 2018
Melinda Bell
Willesley,hedge on golf course
05 December 2020
Kate Nightingale
near Swithland Woods
20 December 2015
David Nicholls
Blaby Cemetary
24 June 2016
Andy's Rutland
Gunnel Lane Meadow-Empingham
30 November 2018
Kate Nightingale
Charnwood Lodge
15 October 2015
Andy's Rutland
Gunnel Lane Meadow-Empingham
30 December 2018
Kate Nightingale
near Swithland Woods
20 December 2015
steven lewis
Stathern
14 November 2017
