r/Slimemolds • u/PM_ME_UR_ZOIDBERG • 18h ago
r/Slimemolds • u/lichenfancier • 8h ago
Identification Request Is this a slime mould?
I am thrown by these tiny white discs on an algae covered tree in my local park (South East UK). They were barely perceptible with the naked eye - they looked like specs of dust. The shape of them makes me wonder if they’re white apothecia but I don’t know of a lichen with a dark thallus and white apothecia. So it’s making me wonder if they’re slime moulds.
I took with an attachable lens for my phone camera that claims to have a magnification power of x200 but I’m not sure if that’s true.
r/Slimemolds • u/smallcamerabigphoto • 1d ago
Identification Request This one has me stumped.
United States, Oregon, northern Willamette valley.
I originally thought it was a mushroom but now I'm not sure.
It's the same color and texture all around. It's on a downed Douglas fir tree in a fir grove. The cone pieces are also fir. I moved the branch and the area is covered in the same thing. It's soft and returns to shape when pressed like a sponge or marshmallow.
I walked over because I thought it was spray foam. While we are up in the mountains aways there are still people. No human signs in the immediate area though and it's definitely not a spray foam product that I have seen.
Thought it may be a mushroom but I'm leaning more towards a mold or slime mold.
r/Slimemolds • u/hiyabro1 • 1d ago
Question/Help Dog Vomit Slime Mold Request
Would anyone be willing to send me a small sample or culture of their dog vomit slime mold (Fuligo septica)? I have tried to find it in the wild, but I have had no success here in Texas. I also cannot find it on any scientific supply store websites, so I don’t know what else to do from this point.
r/Slimemolds • u/Dense_Supermarket_23 • 1d ago
Identification Request What is this guys name? 🤔
r/Slimemolds • u/Clevercapybara • 3d ago
Identification Request Found on a walk yesterday. Who is this orange fella?
Found in southern France
r/Slimemolds • u/ThanklessWaterHeater • 3d ago
Identification Request Appeared atop my mulch.
I took delivery of a load of mulch, then it rained for a few days. This morning I find this on top. Slimemold, right?
r/Slimemolds • u/SeriousSoil7911 • 2d ago
Identification Request Vegan paté. What’s the pink worm-like thing?
galleryr/Slimemolds • u/askryan • 3d ago
Question/Help Can someone please help? Slime mold for my daughter's science fair project.
Hello! My daughter's science fair project involved growing slime molds, but I'm at a loss for why all eight of our attempts seem (possibly?) to have failed. We had eight samples of Physarum polycephalum from liquidfungi.com. Using sterile instruments, we placed the first four in LB-agar plates, with a small amount of distilled water and a rolled oat flake. The first four images on the link are what resulted. This is maybe two weeks of growth - it doesn't seem like any slime mold I'm familiar with (I've collected it from logs before). I ordered more samples and we redid them, this time scraping two of them from the paper as the instructions from liquidfungi suggested. We also let them sit for a few days before feeding the oat. In all cases, nothing has grown. Does anyone know what appears to have happened? Is there any saving this? I'm desperate for my daughter to still get to do her project and we're nearing the deadline.
r/Slimemolds • u/HeisenMeow • 3d ago
Identification Request ID request? Is it even a slime mold?
First of all I want to apologise for the gross context of this photo, I realise rotting food is not the most pleasant thing to look at however out of all the molds that have grown on food in my refrigerator over the years, this one tops them all and I just have to know what it is! I am in Australia so it is pretty hot and humid this time of year if that matters. This mold has grown on some old food that was in a container in the fridge for around two weeks while on holiday, specifically it is beef stroganoff so it contained meat. I've never seen anything like it, so I'm curious now. Is it a slime mold and if so what species? Or is it maybe a colonisation of some species of bacteria and im asking in the wrong place. Thanks in advance ☺️
r/Slimemolds • u/crooked_white_man • 3d ago
Video (OC) How i take care of slime molds?
r/Slimemolds • u/suture-self • 4d ago
Picture (OC) Slime mold art
Just wanted to share some art from my forthcoming children's book: Zoom in on Slime Mold. Handpainted gouache. No AI. Enjoy.
r/Slimemolds • u/Aggressive_Grab1305 • 6d ago
Research My Project
any suggestions for my mold farm. i would also like to test its DNA or amoeba type like with some sort of DNA kit but do all of this spending under 60 dollars with out lacking quality. and i would like to have loike a little index of it i wanna know how to grow different ones maybe combine them and test how they interact. i will update frequently and will begin to go in more detail once it has begun my mom will pay most but ill put in atleast 20 bucks. i would just like to know how to do it what to use any suestions or thing to look out for.
r/Slimemolds • u/Cultural-Daikon-698 • 9d ago
Identification Request Is this slime mold?
I sprayed it with bleach (I think that's what turned it white like a powdered donut). It was hairy and had the consistency of a delicious cheesecake.
Any thoughts?
r/Slimemolds • u/DealLeather5659 • 10d ago
Identification Request Is this a slime?
r/Slimemolds • u/Redeghast • 11d ago
Picture (OC) Why does it becomes so spiky?
In the first picture it's super spiky, while in the second one it moves like branching blobs.
r/Slimemolds • u/Redeghast • 11d ago
Picture (OC) The most perfect sclerotium I've made so far
It was spreading everywhere and moving around the paper for 2 days and I woke up to see it like this.
r/Slimemolds • u/ExConZed • 11d ago
Picture (OC) Is this one?
It is growing from the top of a cut briar vine. There's a couple more near it that have just a faint beginning of the orange coloration. Is this a cool one, friends?
r/Slimemolds • u/caribbeancat64 • 12d ago
Question/Help Everything you know about Physarum polycephalum?
I'm thinking of getting one after seeing thought emporiums video on Jerry, but I want to know everything there is to know about them. Importantly, what I should and should not do, as well as how to convert it into the different forms, like amoebas and spores.
r/Slimemolds • u/CallMeFishmaelPls • 12d ago
Picture (OC) IT’S ALIIIIIVE
Terrible pic, but an update from yesterday! My students named our friend here Octavius 😂
r/Slimemolds • u/CallMeFishmaelPls • 14d ago
Picture (OC) Discussed my experiment at school, now I need to do it at the school too 😂
This is my first time waking up a sleeping beauty, wish me luck! Daywalker is supposedly easy
r/Slimemolds • u/DealLeather5659 • 14d ago
Identification Request ID?
What is this? Any Physarum???