Reading the wiki entry for the Dog vomit slime mold I ran across this morning they mention, "The levels of zinc in Fuligo septica were so high (4,000–20,000 ppm) that it is difficult to understand how a living organism can tolerate them." Apparently it “... produces a yellow pigment called fuligorubin A, which has been shown to chelate metals and convert them to inactive forms.”
Finland, Dutch, and Latvian lore refer to it as witches spit or witches butter.
There is the most amazing blue stuff growing on my very old branches on a neglected and damp woodpile (slime / algae / moss / lichen?). I’ve never seen anything quite like it! (Northern Tuscany, Italy 🇮🇹 ) Not ideal for burning & heating my old house, but aesthetically pleasing. Ideas, anyone?
(No filter used, camera phone)
This week I discovered a slime mold taking over an old stump behind the house. Over the next 3 days I took a picture of it at the same time of day. Notice the section that grasped the twig - how it then didn’t proceed like the remainder of the mass. Once slime molds leave the plasmodium stage and enter the fruiting stage, the change is FAST.
Cool fungi in the #Muskokas today (near Wilberforce). Some kind of jelly fungus? And/or possibly #SlimeMold? An array of bracket #fungi. And a cool fuzzy purple thing! I have no idea what any of these are - identifications welcome! Slightly early for #FungiFriday
I would guess it may be e.g. Leocarpus fragilis, also called Insect-egg slime, at different stages of "fruiting" or the result of dry weather, which negatively influenced the creation of spore capsules. Maybe therefore the different sizes and shades?
… which is #NOTaFungi at all, but a #SlimeMold, which is not a Mold either, despite its name.
Slimemold season is here 😍. This orange patch on a rotting log was about 3 cm long. I think is Salmon Eggs Slime Mold (Hemitrichia decipiens). They move along the wood to eat bacteria and algae, and help decomposing it. #slimemold#nature#macro#MacroPhotography
Ik volg deze slijmzwam nu twee dagen, het begon met witte bolletjes, toen roze staafjes die glimmend zwart werden en vanavond vlak voor het donker werd zag het er zo uit. Metallic glanzende staafjes, hoe is het mogelijk dat dit bestaat! Het is een slijmzwam, Stemonitopsis Typhina en het is ca. 4 mm. klein.
Two days ago I posted a photo of the best Slime Molds I'd ever found.
Well, today I went back to revisit them. They'd gone from #Pink to #Brown
They were now even harder to photograph, it needed a near half second exposure under the gloomy log, but it was windy and they wouldn't keep still and kept giving off clouds of microscopic brown spores.