Chocolate Tube Slime Mold - Stemonitis splendens
by Carol Senske
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Chocolate Tube Slime Mold - Stemonitis splendens
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Carol Senske
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
Slime molds are amazing almost-creatures, almost-fungi. They are classified as "Ameobozoa-Mycetozoa-Myxogastria-Stemonitida-Stemonitidae-Stemonitis-S. fusca". They go through a number of phases, quite different from the mushrooms and bracket fungi. It begins as a big cell with numerous nuclei, and it moves around looking for food in leaf litter on the forest floor. When time is right it goes through three more stages, white, pink, brown, to create spores and disperse them.
I took this picture with a Canon T4i and a Tamron macro lens - 90mm. This was found in Green Lane, Pennsylvania, USA, on June 7, 2014.
You can read more here - they are amazing!
http://www.radfordpl.org/wildwood/today/Fungi_Spp_pp/ChcltTbSM.html
http://www.blogsmonroe.com/nature/2011/07/i-am-stemonitis/
You can find this image in my mushrooms and fungi gallery although they are really in a class of their own:>)
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August 1st, 2014
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AnnaJo Vahle
What a fascinating photo and description, Mother Nature! Beautiful photography, too. f/l
Carol Senske replied:
Hi, AnnaJo:>). Lovely to see you appear here - thank you for coming. Slime molds actually can "learn" (in a most rudimentary sense). Amazing things:>)