Monday, August 02, 2010

Orange slime for Gisela.
If you have some info on this then we can add it here. 
Let me know if you want the larger photos and I will email it to you.

I saw it only once - early morning.  By midday the
bubbles have all "melted" into a thin  layer of orange liquid.

If I had a scientific mind I would not have picked it up
but I wanted to have a closer look and did not realize it was so very
fragile.




To give some idea of size.  The snail was not bigger than my thumbnail.
The green leaves are from a very small (weed) groundcover of  the Euphorbia family.
I like that ground cover even if it is seen as a weed. 
It is too small to overgrow  my aloes and it is drought resistant.

There was no sign that the slime damaged the plant in any way.

2 comments:

Julie said...

WOW...amazing slime!!! I am trying to figure out which Euphorbia this is...will check my ID books with a leaf like this one. I Love Euphorbias...just watch out for that horrid sap...don't get it in your eyes!!!

ericat said...

I know about the sap/latex. Added some comment and photo in the next blog for you.