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Index of Subjects --=====================_1695093697==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Thanks for this, Peter. This evening, friends of ours described a slime mold on their back lawn. They said it was an intense yellow, perfectly circular, abt. 16 in dia. They did not take a photo when it was yellow & it faded fairly quickly the woman tried to pick it up but that was impossible. It disappeared entirely in less than 2 days, I believe they said. Angus At 07:30 PM 05/07/2013, you wrote: >The recent spell of wet weather wasn't entirely without interest; a >magnificent yellow slime mould sprouted in the duff under the trees >at our home in Waverley. It was a good 15cm across. You can see a ><http://www.pbase.com/ppayzant/image/151159158/large>photo here. > >The <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold>Wikipedia entry on >slime moulds is extremely interesting. From that article, I suspect >that ours could have been Physarum polycephalum, and the ><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physarum_polycephalum>article on that >organism is even more interesting. Did you know that they can solve >mazes and have been used to simulate road networks? > >Peter Payzant >Waverley --=====================_1695093697==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> <body> <br> Thanks for this, Peter. This evening, friends of ours described a slime mold on their back lawn. They said it was an intense yellow, perfectly circular, abt. 16 in dia. They did not take a photo when it was yellow & it faded fairly quickly the woman tried to pick it up but that was impossible. It disappeared entirely in less than 2 days, I believe they said.<br><br> Angus<br> At 07:30 PM 05/07/2013, you wrote:<br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">The recent spell of wet weather wasn't entirely without interest; a magnificent yellow slime mould sprouted in the duff under the trees at our home in Waverley. It was a good 15cm across. You can see a photo here.<br><br> The Wikipedia entry on slime moulds is extremely interesting. From that article, I suspect that ours could have been <i>Physarum polycephalum</i>, and the article on that organism is even more interesting. Did you know that they can solve mazes and have been used to simulate road networks?<br><br> Peter Payzant<br> Waverley<br> </blockquote></body> <br> </html> --=====================_1695093697==.ALT--
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