#slime moulds

[myxomycota]

Lobella sauteri eating Lycogala conicum

by m.k_matto

[briery]

Stemonitis flavogenita stage 3 by Barry Webb.

[fungisamongis]

Species: Carnival candy slime mold (Arcyria denudata)

Location of specimen: Southeast United States

[maxwellshimbo]

So last week I learned that slime moulds can solve the Traveling Salesperson problem in linear time.

My first thought was So PvsNP is solved??

But then I remembered that slime moulds are not Turing machines.

[vothnthorvaldson-blog]

Subjects most likely to be posted on my blog :

Lichens. Lots of lichens. Lichens are my main special interest ; I particularly love the Peltigera genus.

Myxomycetes, liverworts, mosses ;

Flowers, especially wild orchids ;

Fungi, animals ;

Pages from my comic (which does not have a permanent home right now, but temporarily (?) lives here https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=moonovermarsh;

Embroidery, various fiber arts;

Fabrics, patterns, sewing; Miniatures 1/12 to 1/6.

Edit March 22, 2024:

I made a secondary blog for fandoms, as I wish to keep this one mostly for my own nature-related content.

https://www.tumblr.com/vothnthorvaldsonfandomblog will be a mix of reblogs and my own content. My main fandoms are TES (Morrowind and Skyrim mostly, but not only) and Moomin . But I may also post about others that I'm either less involved into, or that are more niche.

[acelania]

The specific slime used is Physarum polycephalum, which got briefly popular back in 2019 when the Paris Zoological Park put one on display!

In addition, the designers (Jasmine Lu and Pedro Lopes, from the University of Chicago's Human Computer Integration Lab) have put the specs for the watch itself up on GitHub for public access:

researchers built wearable heart rate sensors powered by slime molds that had to be fed like Tamagotchis and literally everyone involved with the study began personifying their little heart rate friends

[stardust-bridges]

Club Furies Premiere: Centeno - Descendre [Diffuse Reality]

From Córdoba, Argentina, producer CENTENO presents his work entitled Slime Moulds, a collection of four original tracks that the Spanish platform Diffuse Reality Records has signed to its catalogue. The title of the work may refer to slime moulds (Phylum Mycetozoa), divided into cellular moulds and true slime moulds, found in damp soils where they feed on living bacteria. While the name of the…

[sajanrai]

Myxmy - a sentient slime mould masquerading as humanoid

[mycosprite]

Dog Vomit Slime Mould Fuligo septica

[myxomycota]

Tubifera ferruginosa

by sluzowce.sudetow

[bazpango]

"Ah, do you like me just that little bit more? Are we friends now?"

The Hinterland Doctrine series by @halfpromise will not leave my head.

[fungisamongis]

Species: Dog vomit slime mold (Fuligo septica)

Location of specimens: Southeast United States

Note: Slime molds, especially this species, can be split into pieces and find their way back to the other parts. They change shape/texture while forming and moving

[wild-e-eep]

... 8 hours later:

This is Arcyria cinerea much beloved of various small, creeping things, and me also. <3

[saccharine222]

Trichia decipiens

(Salmon egg slime mould) 🍣

[mycoblogg]

Whats the difference between lichen, moss, mould and mushrooms if they're all fungus? Aren't they all the same sorta thing?

so, interestingly, all of these groups are very different !! instead of naming the differences, let me quickly explain what exactly these organisms are.

lichen :

lichens are symbiotic organisms, meaning they are in themselves the product of a relationship between different organisms. to simplify it, lichens are big part fungus, & smaller part algae (protista) or cyanobacteria (monera). these different forms of life together create lichen, which grows on trees, rocks, leaves, mosses & sometimes other lichens !! to read more about lichens, check out @/lichenaday's blog :-)

moss :

mosses are actually not fungi at all !! they are small, flowerless plants. they grow on trees & in soil. :-)

mould :

mould is a type of structure that fungi can form - it is entirely fungal. it reproduces through airborne spores :-) there are many different types of mould ; some are toxic, some are used medicinally, & some are saprotrophs. (note : slime moulds & water moulds are unrelated to fungal moulds !!)

mushrooms :

so, lots of people think mushrooms are a species of fungus, but they are not. "mushroom" refers to the fruiting body of a fungus ; what a mushroom is to a fungus is comparable to what a flower is to a tree - the part that reproduces !! not all fungi produce mushrooms (e.g. moulds, which do not have fruiting bodies as the entire organism is able to release spores). there are currently only 14 000 discovered fungi that produce mushrooms !! more fungi that don't produce mushrooms include mildew, yeast & lichen.

so, yes !! they're all quite different in structure, cells & function in the ecosystem.

[mushroomgay]

I don't know what this white slime mould is, but the tiny forests of it carpeting this wood were beautiful.