Re: URGENT diagnostic help needed!!
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: URGENT diagnostic help needed!!
- From: T* P* M*
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:25:16 PDT
ON my lawn I have little cirular things and I have no idea where they came
from. Looks like something that fell our of a tree but there is no tree for
it to fall from, it this what you are talking aobut
>From: "Harold Eddleman Ph.D" <indbio@disknet.com>
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: URGENT diagnostic help needed!!
>Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:43:41 -0700
>
>pumpkins@mallorn.com wrote:
> >
> > Hey all,
> > Hope you are having a better day than me. I came home tonight to find
>some
> > kind of coating or discharge on 3 leaf stems (2 on the same junction of
>
> Sounds a alot like slime mold. Totally harmless. There are many kinds.
>The eat bacteria oozing thru the soil and then come up to make fruiting
>boddies. Watch it and see what shape bodies are formed. Go to Alta vista
>picutres and search for slime mold.
> Slime molds are common on sawdust, lawns, lawn clippings, and other
>rotting plant matter and manure. One you see one bunch then lots of them
>appear in a few days and then it may be over. Unsightly on strawberries
>but no economic loss of other crops.
> When I was a kid it was the one thing my Dad did not know. He guessed
>Physarum might be snake feces. That one is yellow and becomes foamy pink
>and brown inside. One of my favorite organisms. I grow it on moist
>oatmeal. But I can seldom cultivate the wild strains.
>--
>Harold Eddleman Ph.D. Microbiologist. i*@disknet.com
>Location: Palmyra IN USA; 36 kilometers west of Louisville, Kentucky
>http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab = Agriculture, science projects
>
>
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