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Slime molds are fascinating - this Dog Vomit Slime Mold (Fuligia septica) is not a fungus but rather a member of the protist kingdom and more related to an amoeba. #SlimeMoldSaturday #nature #naturephotography #CampbellRiver #VancouverIsland

the bright yellow delicate webbing of a Dog Vomit slime mold in prominent in the vertical axis of this photo covering tree bark - to the left of the vertical slime mold is another rounder yellow fruiting body. In the background there are a few shiny green leaves of a native shrub - salal. Photo taken near Campbell River on Vancouver Island.

Raspberry Slime Mold (Tubifera ferruginosa)

#SlimeMoldSaturday #SlimeMold

A bright orage-red cluster of tiny tubs that almost look like extruded from the dark, dead wood they grow on. At the edges, tiny white stalks or 'feet" are visible

A decaying dark log with several patches of bright red slime mold fruiting bodies and a few green leaves scattered around.

Hijacking #FungiFriday: It resembles a fungus but is actually a slime mold: Dog's Vomit (Fuligo septica). This one is still forming - at later stages it turns into a yellow-brownish mass that lives up to its name.

#SlimeMolds
PS: I just discovered #SlimeMoldSaturday!

A bright yellow mass of globby filaments is emerging from a crack in dead wood.

Came across some Wolf’s Milk slime mold on a stump a couple of days ago.
Love the color of those cushion-like blobs.
Here they are still immature, with eye-catching colors. When mature, they will be grayish and more likely to go unnoticed.

I almost posted this photo to help with identification on #FungiFriday before realizing that these are no fungi, so Happy #SlimeMoldSaturday or #SlimeMoldSunday or #MyxogastriaMonday ! 🙂

#SlimeMold #LycogalaEpidendrum #WolfsMilk #myxogastria

Cushion-like blobs on an old stump, their rounded curves and light coral-red color contrasting with the dark and sharp wood splinters.

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.

EDIT: huge thanks to @ak_text who tells me this is a cobalt crust fungus (Terana caerulea), aka “velvet blue spread”. And very pretty it is too.

#mosstodon #lichensubscribe #slimemold #slimemoldsaturday #funghi #funghi

Very bright blue blotches on a rotten log

The same blue on a wider shot of the log

@frankashwood @nev I’m merely a consumer of y’all’s excellent creepy-crawlie-slimy fren photographs, not a producer. But I think all the hashtags should alliterate, and who care if there’s multiples? #WormyWednesday can go side by side with #WoodlouseWednesday! What about #Flyday? #MoldyMonday? #SlimeMoldSaturday? Just do them all!!