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For all the fans of "Slime", here's the competition photo. When deciding which one to post to flickr, it was either the remote, or the laptop. =]
Oh, and I had so much trouble cleaning the slime out between the cracks on the remote, I just gave up... :|
A late-stage slime mold standing only millimeters tall resembles tufts of cotton bright pink cotton candy. This is a focus-stacked composite image consisting of ~20 images.
The Least Known Gifts of the Forest -
I don’t give molds much thought because they are undesired organisms that ruin my leather bags and bathroom ceilings. Today I devote some time to thinking about them. What happens if we leave bread uneaten for two weeks? Fuzzy green colonies for certain will disperse confidently like spread butter on toast. What happens if we reuse, day after day, sweated socks without washing? We get Athlete's Foot in no time shooting up between toes. With this in mind, not all fungi are grisly looking or harmful by nature causing disease. There are plenty of beneficent ones that are quite amazing in colors and shapes. Hereafter, this truth comes to life when I enter the earthy grounds at midday. My attention was on the green beards on rocks when a timeworn trunk with pale lichens clinging beckoned me to come and see. An established presence huddling in twos and threes caught my ears.
“Hello! Hello! Hello!” their tiny voices squeaked.
Obedient to instinct, I bend down and peer at the little matchsticks beaming with glee. Inching closer to the sulfur redheads, I feel their flame. Ooh! Today is such a gorgeous day spent in enchanted woodland. While the sky above me couldn't be a bluer sapphire hue, this offbeat bouquet of microbes in tomato stains looked real pretty. In conclusion I surmise, unloved molds feel anything but common when seen through a lover’s eyes.
tiny slime mould on a piece of decaying wood (of which you can see here approx 6cm in length). New Forest
Today`s highlight was : www.flickr.com/photos/182379545@N02/52350277995/in/contacts/
Trichia ambigua...
My first Slime Mold discovery. Found up in good old Swineholes Wood. A damp piece of bark lying face down on the ground. Fascinates me this genre of photography :)
Size reference in the comments....
On decaying wood, about 1 1/2" across.
Probably an earlier stage of Fuligo septica, a plasmodial slime mold in the family Physaraceae, according to Wikipedia. Common worldwide. It is also called "dog vomit" slime mold.
One at the stage I'm used to seeing 4 or 5 photos back.
OK large
Focus stacked from 25 photos taken with in-camera focus shift app. On decayed Log in the Anacortes Community Forest Lands.
Shot at about 1:1.
Note Liverwort among them -- Click photo to enlarge.
Unposted slime mold image from my hike to Lodge Lake a few years ago on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). I believe that this is Trichia decipiens, which apparently has no common name.
Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie Nat'l Forest, WA
Newly emerged sporangium of a slime mould, Trichia decipiens. The fruiting body is less than 1mm high. 19 February 2022. Fox Wood, Ealing, London, England, UK.
(I'm adding this to fungi Flickr groups - I realise that's not technically the right home for it).
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“A bit of mold is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars”. ― Victor Hugo; ‘Les Misérables’.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Black mold ♫ youtu.be/-vuxZZJlWS4
---- Myxomycetes. Photo taken with Nokia Lumia 930.
Myxogastria
Some species of slime mould. They very small, just a few millimetres high and the body is less than a milometer wide.
I have used the maximum magnification of my macro lens (1:1) and added two extension tubes (a total 37 mm), giving a magnification of 1.25:1. And still I had to crop this shot.
It’s a focus stack of 47 photo’s.
Canon 70D
Sigma 150mm F2.8 IF EX APO DG OS HSM
ISO 100, 0,6 sec., f/4,5
Aperture priority
Canon Extension Tube EF12 II
Canon Extension Tube EF25 II
I am continually amazed by the bright and vibrant colors produced by these tiny organisms. This image shows various stages of Trichia decipiens, a cosmopolitan species often found on moist, decaying trees.
I think this may be Red raspberry slime mould , Tubifera ferruginosa ( Lachsfarbene Schleimpilz ), approx 3cm wide
Dorset
and also quite interesting is the black "root" which I believe are
rhizomorphs of the Honey fungus ! This is how the Honey fungus apparently can move from tree to tree before killing the trees !
Monkwood, Worcs
Cellular slime molds, or dictyostelids, were originally considered to be fungi. These microscopic, multicellular organisms are easily mistaken for some of the microfungi that commonly occur as contaminants in laboratory cultures. However, cellular slime molds are more closely related to the protozoans than to fungi.