We’ve had an unusually cool and dry spring so the slime molds have not appeared as early as I would have liked, nor did I find any of the usual suspects in spring mushrooms when walking in the woods. And I could have done without the late April snowstorm that killed off the magnolia blossoms that were just beginning to open. The silver lining is that fighting off the mosquitoes in the typical heat and humidity to photograph the emerging slime molds is not something I’ve missed.
I think this one is ceratiomyxa poroides. I’ve never seen it before, although since it just looks, to the naked eye, like tiny white spheres it’s quite possible I’ve walked right by it thinking it was a stemonitis that I’ve already photographed.
Let the slime mold hunting begin!
