#slime mould

[myxomycota]

a tiny springtail on Craterium minutum

by Barry Webb

[vincentbriggs]

The third and final leaf vest in my leaf bolero sewing video, and my favourite of the 3, is this dark brown late autumn leaf. It's quilted, but much less densely than the previous one, and I pieced it together out of 2 slightly different shades of brown cotton.

The veins are embroidered in whipped chain stitch (for the denser areas I whipped all the rows together 2 at a time) and there are some patches of blanket stitch honeycomb to imitate venules. I wanted the leaf to look a little bit rotten. The beads along part of the bottom edge are inspired by a beautiful photo of slime mould growing along the edge of a leaf posted by Bea Leiderman on instagram.

[michaelnordeman]

Scrambled egg slime/Fuligo septica/trollsmör, a species of slime mould.

Fuligo septica, commonly known in Sweden as trollsmör ("troll butter"), belong to a remarkable group of single-celled organisms that spend part of their lives as a giant, multinucleate cell known as a plasmodium.

During this stage, they can slowly move across decaying wood, engulfing bacteria, fungi and other microscopic food in their path. It may only travel a few centimetres a day, but it is very much alive and on the move. When conditions change, the plasmodium transforms into a spore-producing fruiting body, which is usually the stage we notice in the forest.

Slime moulds have fascinated people for centuries because they seem to appear overnight and vanish just as quickly. In Nordic folklore, trollsmör was said to be milk spilled by a magical creature known as a bjära or "troll hare", sent out by witches to steal milk from their neighbours' cows. Wherever a little of the stolen milk was dropped in the forest, trollsmör was believed to appear.

The real explanation is perhaps even more extraordinary than the old legends.

Fridenborgshöjden nature reserve in Värmland, Sweden (2 July 2026).

[wild-e-eep]

A gorgeous new-to-me slime mould found on a rotting ash hulk. I think it keys out to Lamproderma arcyrioides.

iNaturalist observation 320594296

[mycosprite]

Wolf's Milk Lycogala epidendrum

[sajanrai]

Myxmy - a sentient slime mould masquerading as humanoid

[ratbugs]

really enjoying this reddit post

here are all the resources they provided 🔗:

🌈 slime education! 🦠 🧫

[themangocrow]

I WAS working on a new artwork, unfortunately my stupid ass saved a file over it and now I only have this half finished screenshot that I took to show someone. I’ll probably eventually redraw it in a different program (I was originally drawing it on roblox, which is partially why I couldn’t get it back).