Strumpshaw Fen Stemonitis flavogenita – April 2023

In the morning of 9th April—at Basecamp—the daughter spotted this Stemonitis flavogenitaslime mould plasmodium in the process of turning into young sporangia:

Adjacent to this group there were some mature, black and rusty-brown sporangia:

And at the end of our walk—a couple of hours later—we noticed the smaller clumps to the right beginning to form sporangia:

The next morning, distinct purple-brown sporangia had formed on slender black stems:

The following evening, the group had dried out and become more black:

Towards the end of April, the sporangia had tuned to a rusty-brown colour.

A week later...