Photo of a slime mold on a yellowish, dead branch. This slime mold consists of tiny, black, wire-like stalks topped with tiny, dark brown, pom-pom like sporangia (where spores are produced).
Slime mold, Comatrichia nigra. These guys are tiny - a pic for scale is in the comments. #Newfoundland, Canada.
#myxo #slimemould #fungifriends
Photo of a small, round sphere (snowshoe hare poop) is covered in a yellow slime mold comprised of hundreds of tiny round sporangia. The hare poop is sitting on a dead, brown leaf.
The winner of the world’s fanciest poop prize goes to…
(a fruiting/reproducing slime mold has completely covered this snowshoe hare poop. NWT, Canada)
#myxo #fungifriends #slimemold
Photo of a cluster of yellow-tan slime mold sporangia. The sporangia are in short, thin stalks. Each has a tube shape and looks putty-like at the bottom and foam/sponge-like at the top.
Slime mold, Arcyria obvelata. This cluster of sporangia is about 1.5cm wide.
NWT, Canada. #slime #myxo #fungifriends
Close up photo of a wine-coloured slime mold which looks like a tight cluster of human fingers on short stalks.
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> Slime mold Arcyria stipata. This one is a pretty finger-y species. NWT, Canada. Specimen is about 3cm wide. #myxo #slimemould #fungifriends
Close up photo of a wine-coloured slime mold which looks like a tight cluster of human fingers on short stalks.
Slime mold Arcyria stipata. This one is a pretty finger-y species. NWT, Canada. Specimen is about 3cm wide.
#myxo #slimemould #fungifriends
Photo of a chocolate tube slime mold on a dead branch, with a green background. The slime mold is comprised of hundreds of tiny chocolate coloured, tube-shaped sporangia, each held up by long, wire-looking stems.
Chocolate tube slime mold (Stemonitis sp). Northwest Territories, Canada.
#myxo #slimemould #fungifriends.
Specimen is about 3cm wide x 2cm high.
Photo of a slime mold fruiting on a dead wild rose stem. The slime mold sporangia sort of look like letters from the Roman Alphabet (c r u u etc.) arranged as a “word”.
The letters aren’t formed all that well, but a pretty good effort for a slime mold. There’s a couple of special characters in there so I suspect it’s a password.
(Species name, Physarum bivalve)
#myxo #slime #fungifriends #language
#linguist
Close up photo of a moss plant that appears to be decorated like a tree, with black bulbs (slime mold sporangia)
Mosses love to decorate with slime molds. Northwest Territories, Canada.
#slime #fungifriends #myxo #moss #bryophyte #botany
Photo of a yellow slime mold on a twig. The slime mold has a green plant sprout growing through it.
Rare sighting of a vegan slime mold returning from the hunt.
NWT, Canada.
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Photo of tan coloured slime mold fruiting on a piece of grey, dead plant material. The background colour is green.
Slime mold, Leocarpus fragilis. NWT, Canada. #slime #myxo #fungifriends
Photo of a slime mold comprised of hundreds of tiny spheres (sporangia) that are blue and purple in colour. The slime mold is on green moss.
Lamproderma slime mold. NWT, Canada.
#slime #myxo #fungifriends A photo of the same slime mold taken just one day earlier is in the comments.
Photo of a chocolate tube slime mold on a sprig of moss. Slime mold looks like its name suggests…chocolate tubes - they’re bunched together and standing upright. The background of the photo is green.
Chocolate tube slime mold on a sprig..of moss. Stemonitis sp. NWT, Canada.
Slime mold is about 2cm wide.
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Photo of a slime mold that looks like a large brown/bronze pretzel. It’s attached to an old log.
Willkommlangea reticulata, a very pretzely slime mold. Photo covers about 10cm/4” left to right. Northwest Territories, Canada. #myxo #slime #fungifriends.
Photo of a developing slime mold which looks like tan-coloured weiners standing vertically on a piece of dead wood.
A developing Arcyria slime mold. NWT, Canada. Specimen is about 1cm high. #myxo #slimemold #fungifriends
Photo of bright yellow slime mold sporangia held together by a string of plasmodium. The sporangia look like tiny, round balls or ornaments. The photo background is green. The smile mold is attached to a twig.
Another instalment of Slime Mold on a Stick. NWT, Canada. #slime #myxo #fungifriends
Photo of a slime mold sporangium that’s grey and white in colour. The sporangium looks like it has a ghoulish face (eyes and mouth) on one end.
Me, looking at a slime mold looking at me.
Physarum bivalve. Northwest Territorie, Canada. This guy was, thankfully, only about 2cm long. #slime #myxo #fungifriends
Photo of a twig. Grey slime mold sporangia are attached to and lining the entire twig, which is on a 45 degree angle in the photo.
Slime mold on a stick. NWT, Canada.
#myxo #slime #fungifriends
Photo of 3 slime mold sporangia that look like wrinkled, brown weiners on metallic stems…like corn dogs.
Geriatric corn dogs.
Or slime mold Stemonitopsis typhina.
Pretty sure they‘re corn dogs.
#slime #myxo #fungifriends
Photo of a black twig covered in yellow slime mold sporangia.
Slime mold on a stick. NWT, Canada. Photo covers about 5cm in height.
#slime #myxo #fungifriends
Photo of a fruiting slime mold that looks like a mass of light blue fish or insect eggs.
Diderma sp slime mold. Northwest Territories, Canada. #slime #myxo #fungifriends while #hiking
Behold, corn's evil twin!
#slime #myxo #fungifriends
A photo of a large developing, bright yellow slime mold.
A developing slime mold. The pic covers about 6” of height. Northwest Territories, Canada.
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Photo of a developing slime mold that’s lime green in colour and comprised of hundreds of tiny green spheres.
A developing a Lamproderma slime mold.
Northwest Territories, Canada. Photo covers about 6” of width. Pic from a few years ago in August. A day later this had matured into a several iridescent colours.
#myxo #slime #fungifriends
We did discuss a few #Myxo tomes at the original #MycoBookClub mycobookclub.blogspot.com
In my experience the problem with #Myxo books is the best ones are all either impossible to get or crazy expensive. But maybe things have changed!
This is a myxo, I thought I would only ever find in the tropics. Never did I think I would find this in my ow backyard.
Lets move on to the eipthet of this genus in the thread below 🧵👇🏼
#slimemoldsunday #myxomycetes #phsarella #prospectpark #protistlove #forestfloorfinds #myxo #slimemold #🦠
A developing slime mold that looks like thousands of tiny light blue blobs. The slime mold is fruiting on some twigs and green moss.
Diderma sp slime mold. I love the colour of this developing specimen. Northwest Territories, Canada. #slimemold #myxo #fungifriends
Photo of a large yellow slime mold in the process of fruiting (reproducing). The slime mold is covering a dead tree branch on the ground and the rest of it is in a huge gloopy pile that looks like extra thick split pea soup.
This one really lives up to the “slime mold” name. Northwest Territories, Canada. #slime #myxo #fungifriends
A lime green slime mold that looks like hundreds of tiny ping pong balls attached to dark wood.
Lamproderma sp. slime mold. Northwest Territories, Canada, a few summers ago. This slime mold is part way through the fruiting process. A day later this had become multicoloured and iridescent. #slimemould #myxo #fungifriends
