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English: Nostoc. This jelly-like blob was about four centimetres wide, and was found sitting on a moss-covered branch in the woods, about four feet above the ground.
Its glistening upper surface reflects its surroundings. It appears brown-tinted here, but this is simply the brown colour of its base, refracted as if by glass; the body of the fungus is in fact uncoloured and almost perfectly transparent: a clear jelly. Having touched this specimen, I found that the fruiting body was very soft, almost watery in consistency (the photograph was taken during a period of very wet weather). It may be a particularly wet specimen of an Exidia, Myxarium, or Tremella species of fungus; an identifiable species of jelly fungus was growing only inches away (Crystal Brain Fungus – see link in final paragraph, below). In addition, the blob was evidently at least partially water-filled, contributing to its rather atypical appearance (as a kind of natural water-balloon). In any case, this object remains something of a mystery, although I believe it to be fungal in nature. [Although they are apparently something quite different again, compare the mysterious but fascinating jellies shown here: 1024172; see a BBC Scotland page – http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/articles/jelly/index.shtml – for various suggested identifications (some more sensible than others) of these objects, and https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1560335 for the explanation that I personally favour.] For comparison, the following links show a selection of other jelly-like natural substances: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/933073 (White Brain Fungus – Exidia thuretiana), https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1000447 (Crystal Brain Fungus – Exidia nucleata), https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1182111 (probably from frogs), https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/923285 (a slime mould plasmodium), https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1552334 (Amber Jelly Roll – Exidia recisa), https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1470400 (Nostoc pruniforme), https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1470398 (Nostoc commune), and https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/932380 (Yellow Brain Fungus – Tremella mesenterica, of which colourless forms are sometimes found). |
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| Author | Lairich Rig |
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