#slime mold

[heatherlannnne]

currently thinking about whether slime molds actually prefer oats, or if we’ve just spent decades accidentally creating an entire civilization of oatmeal enthusiasts

[moonlightdistractions]

Adventures in backyard gardening: I was watering my gardens when I accidentally hit a patch of dried up slime mold, which then basically exploded into a dust storm of spores.

here's photos of said slime mold when I first found it (left) and then a couple days later (right). it looked a lot different today, I figured it had all dried up so wasn't worried about it. Oh my goddess, the plumes of brown spores that took flight! I wish I videotaped it.

I came inside and showered and even neti -potted cause I'm allergic to most molds and even fungi.

[heatherannchristie]

[myxomycota]

Stemonitis sp. by Barry Webb

[themotionlessmajority1]

I think it's Arcyria- happy to be corrected. Grew this out of a scrap of bark in a jar on my windowsill — wood collected from Queen's Wood, Highgate.

These pinkish-red blobs are the fruiting bodies of a slime mould. For most of its life it's a single crawling cell with no fixed shape; then it stops, and does this. What you're looking at is the still phase of something that was, days ago, slowly moving.

[aquatic-dusk]

reminder that every extraterrestrial creature depicted in fiction looks genuinely less alien than most of the living things on earth

[buff-mushroom-daddy]

Fuligo septica, Dog Vomit Slime Mold