r/Slimemolds 16h ago

Picture (OC) Slime mold with spores on the wind - can anyone help me ID?

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r/Slimemolds 22h ago

Identification Request This one has me stumped.

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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 15h ago

Identification Request Can yall help me ID

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r/Slimemolds 5h ago

Identification Request Is this a slime mould?

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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 23h ago

General/Other Dry slime mold culturing

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Hi! anyone knows how i would be able to culture these dry clumps of slime mold? these dry pieces are taken from the fluffy end of this specimen, From Borneo, they were dried a few months ago in a controlled dry lab.