What the Mystery White Jelly Became A Day Later

These are not the final stage, which will be shown in more images. This is Arcyria obvelata.

The colour of these bodies is pale cream but the exposure determines how yellow they look. I have adjusted the images to a greater or lesser extent, the paler ones being most representative.

That they are bunched together is a feature of this species, not seen in the other Arcyria I find.

This was the day after the jelly blobs emerged. There we two sessions, about 8 hours apart.

Art any one time no two colonies look identical. One looks like it has sugar crystals sprinkled on it. Another has some of the fruiting bodies coalescing their tips to some extent, in the evening session looking like a slab of toffee. (Such has been seen elsewhere with this species). I can see no trace of this in images (to follow) on the third day.

These were shot at a FOV 7mm wide but some have been cropped.

The stereo are crosseye.

Olympus EM-1 (manual mode), Laowa 25mm f2.8 2.5x-5x ultra-macro at f11, twin TTL flash hand-held.

Harold