English: A slime mould - a Lycogala species Growing on a fallen branch, these fruiting bodies are about 1cm in diameter, and resemble tiny oranges. They are fairly delicate; the rightmost one is already beginning to turn into a gelatinous orange paste.

There are two very common Lycogala species in Britain, namely, L. epidendrum and L. terrestre; the two species were, until fairly recently, treated as one species, and, collectively, they form the L. epidendrum aggregate.

The fruiting bodies in this photo are immature, and therefore cannot really be identified to species. Instead, it is necessary to wait a few days; the (different) colour of the mature fruiting bodies and of the spore mass inside them can then be used as useful aids to identification, but, as Bruce Ing's "The Myxomycetes of Britain and Ireland – An Identification Handbook" states, "the microscopic characters *should* be checked" if a reliable determination is to be made.