#elaeomyxa cerifera

[myxomycota]

Elaeomyxa cerifera by Kazumi Banderas

[kedreeva]

Elaeomyxa Cerifera: if your peacocks were mushrooms

Seems legit

[el-beau]

elaeomyxa cerifera

just learned about natures disco ball and I'm obsessed .... I love her ....

[1five1two]

Elaeomyxa cerifera (Myxomycete). Slime Mold. This species has a characteristic ring of wax around the top of the stalk. The thin-film irdescence occurs consistently as bands of different colours, possible due to a consistent variation in the peridial membrane thickness.

[mutant-distraction]

Elaeomyxa Cerifera, first identified in 1942. This slime mold sporophores split open to release spores which sparkle like a disco ball. It looks like a whole Galaxy in a single mushroom.

Photos: John Robinson

and Sarah Lloyd / @sarah.lloyd.tasmania

source: Beezgag

[xphaiea]

Amethyst mushrooms (Elaeomyxa Cerifera) • photos by John Robinson

[science-lover2941]

Elaeomyxa Cerifera

Was first identified in 1942. They are slime mold sporophores that can split open to release spores that sparkle like a disco ball.

It looks like a galaxy

But these aren’t mushrooms!

They aren’t even fungi.. Plasmodial slime molds are in Amoebozoa with organisms like Amoeba proteus.

While fungi belong to the genetic supergroup Obazoa with the animals, a Komodo dragon is more closely related to fungi than a slime is.

They wary in size from less than a millimeter to several centimeters.

[strebcrarchivess]

@goetiia said: Shows him the COOLEST mushroom EVER - the elaeomyxa cerifera!

He was right that is a pretty cool mushroom!! Streber is currently taking pictures of it on his phone!

[onlygodis]

[worldsandemanations]

Amethyst Mushrooms ( Elaeomyxa Cerifera ) First identified in 1942

[halomancer]

If I take a nice photo and someone uses it in a chill educational post, I don’t care. I would be flattered, to be honest! My photos are specifically designed to be educational; I want people to see cool photos of bugs and learn more about them. If my work is there just for illustrative purposes, then like, whatever! I would really prefer credit, but I’m willing to let it slide.

The way some people use photos is… not that. This site has so many blogs dedicated just to sharing #aesthetic photos. If you run one of those blogs, you do not have an excuse to not credit the photographer.

If I see Elaeomyxa cerifera, I know there’s a 90+% chance it’s by Sarah Lloyd. I should not have to scroll through 10 E. cerifera pictures all by the same person, and have to reverse image search just to find her. Your source for the photo should be Lloyd, not a Facebook post that copied a Reddit post that didn’t provide any source.

This whole “AI” “art” thing is making me realize that a lot of people simply do not view photography as art

[myxomycota]

Elaeomyxa cerifera by Kazumi Banderas

[angelnumber27]

Tasmanian slime mold

Photos by John Robinson

[mossful]

Elaeomyxa Cerifera, first identified in 1942. This slime mold sporophores split open to release spores which sparkle like a disco ball. It looks like a whole Galaxy in a single mushroom.

Photos: John Robinson

[psikonauti]

Amethyst mushrooms (Elaeomyxa Cerifera) by John Robinson

[thebashfulbotanist]

I'm curious if it's possible to purchase Elaeomyxa cerifera for photography purposes? I've searched the internet and cannot find anything. Thanks so much!

The short answer here is no, probably not. 

Elaeomyxa cerifera is a pretty rare slime mold. Most slime molds (with the exception of really common species like Physarum polycephalum) haven’t been successfully grown in captivity. Slime molds are not fungi, but instead protozoa with a somewhat unusual life cycle including a mobile plasmodial stage. Elaeomyxa cerifera appears to be confined to southeastern Australia and Tasmania, according to iNaturalist records. 

Keep in mind also that collection of rare species for photography and trade can be harmful to their wild populations and also introduce invasive species to habitats where they don’t belong! Even if you could procure this slime mold, it might not be a good idea.