Chocolate Tube Slime Mold (Immature) (Stemonitis spp.) | Project Noah

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Field Notes

Description:

The immature sporangia of chocolate tube slime mold

Habitat:

Decaying wood

Notes:

Slime molds spend most of their lives as single-celled organisms but amalgamate into multi-nucleated plasmodia during certain environmental conditions. Neither fungi nor bacteria, scientists still debate where this strange organism fits in modern taxonomy. They are completely harmless and non-toxic.

Reference Links:

Stemonitis

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AntónioGinjaGinja

Awesome find Jen,beautiful series,congrats and thanks fro sharing

So cool! Looks like a congregation of ghosts ha ha Thank you for sharing :)

I saw one of these years ago - amazing looking thing isn't it

Thanks! It was really cool to see!

I have only just caught up with this spotting Jen, great images and info. Thanks for sharing it.

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