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Classification

It's unlikely Physarum polycephalum. Much more probable is that it is some species of genus Fuligo. Stas000D (talk) 16:08, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Physarum is a highly dubious identification. It does not form such massive masses. And for Fuligo (young aethalium) this picture is fully typical. It would be a good idea to write a letter to National Human Genome Research Istitute and ask for clarification. I suspect that it was identified as Physarum polycephalum only because it is the most famous species: "A myxomycete? Physarum polycephalum!". Stas (talk) 02:10, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Did you write that letter? If no, please don't insert other identification in the description. We only report what they say. However thanks for the other image you have used on the Italian Wikipedia that is less dubious. --Frank50 s (talk) 20:22, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, dear colleague, but if you are unable even to distinguish Fuligo from Physarum, at least don't hamper other users to remove your and others' mistakes. I have quite a sizeable experience in cultivating representatives of both genera; if you want to work in the theme despite absence of its knowledge, there are crowds of websites where you can familiarize yourself with appearance of any developmental stage of Physarum and Fuligo. And yes, I wrote Jonatha Gott and the support service of NHGRI, and they neither pretend to be competent in identification of myxomycetes nor are interested in removing of their misinformation. If you have any experience in writing Wikipedia articles, you can know that formally reliable sources also can contain mistakes, and building of an encyclopaedia requires something more than blind replication of the nearest source. Stas (talk) 21:09, 16 June 2016 (UTC)