#coral slime mold

[memoriesofthepark]

Coral slime mold 》 Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa

Southeast Texas, 6 Sept. 2024

[seabeck]

I think I’m going to learn how to do super macros so I can photograph things like this

[myxomycota]

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa and the plasmodium of another slime mold.

by Tim Boomer

[cedarsalute]

A collection of mushrooms ive found in Wisconsin, USA 🍄

[amelia-rate]

June 24, 2023: This week's slime mold guest at The Patch on Telfair is Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa, or white coral slime mold. It makes me think of snow, too. Beautiful.

[forestfeeling]

Puffball palace that I had time to visit in between final exams today

[houseofleavess]

[titipounamu]

my best friend honeycomb coral slime mold / Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa • aotearoa

[twoticky]

Every body look at this beautiful beautiful slime mold i saw on my walk today .... ❣️❣️

[bogleech]

I'm curious Mr Leech, what animal do you consider to be the WEIRDEST?

idk I guess the seahorse? from what I've read at least.

The seahorse has arguably the weirdest physical shape of a vertebrate, but just shape alone isn't the only way an animal can be weird, and I think maybe the weirdest animals are myxozoa??

The pustules on this fish are full of an organism similar in composition to a slime mold, a parasitic infection we considered a type of "protozoan" for generations

But myxozoa begin as a drifting spore, which ranges from a simple ball to these "anchor like" objects and even cube-shaped frames like in the top right here. These spores inject the slime stage into fish through a harpoon-like cell identical to the stingers of Cnidarians, like jellyfish, corals, anemones and man o' war. So eventually it was suspected that this wasn't just convergent evolution, and once we could genetically sequence living things, it was proven that this parasitic saltwater "slime mold" was an cnidarian after all, a jellyfish relative that reduced itself to nothing but bare cells. But it still gets weirder, because there also existed these weird "parasitic worms," Buddenbrockia, that ALSO came out of a spore stage, and also had stinging cells.

Finally it was proven that this isn't just another weird jellyfish relative, but specifically a species of Myxozoa. This isn't just slime anymore; it has multiple tissue layers and even muscle. So this is a sea creature skin disease, but it's also an animal that dissolved into a single celled form and then re-evolved a different multicellular animal body from scratch.

[memoriesofthepark]

Coral slime mold! 》 Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa

Featuring a smooth land slug, genus Deroceras, enjoying a coral slime breakfast.

Found out on the trails while foraging for wild onions! I've seen pictures of this genus on my dash but this was my first time encountering it in person!

Southeast Texas, 12 April, 2024

[snailspng]

Random PNGs, part 180.

(1. Yellow chalcedony on lussatite, 2. Stalked jellyfish, 3. "Yellow Woman" by Akio Takamori, 4. Glass hand by Julia Harrison, 5. Hyalite opal, 6. Detail from "Bacchante with an Ape" by Hendrick ter Brugghen, 7. Coral slime mold, 8. Raspberry brooch, 9. Wavellite.)

[myxomycota]

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa by Ben Ballard

[seabeck]

Honeycomb coral slime mold

[forestfeeling]

Little find today

[l00pys0upy]

honeycomb coral slime mold!!