Red Raspberry Slime Mold - Tubifera ferruginosa
by Carol Senske
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Red Raspberry Slime Mold - Tubifera ferruginosa
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Carol Senske
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Slime molds are kind of an amalgam of plant and animal and fungus. At different life stages they can be like an amoeba or a spore producing fungus. A bunch of them group together and look like raspberries. When not in reproductive mode they can move across surfaces like amoebas , engulfing bacteria, spores and such. It gives off a chemical signal when ready to reproduce that calls bunches together like this.
More info here:
https://www.messiah.edu/oakes/fungi_on_wood/club%20and%20coral/species%20pages/Tubifera%20ferruginosa.htm
This picture was taken with a Canon T4i and a Tamron 150-600 mm lens - taken on July 5, 2015, in Green Lane, Pennsylvania, USA.
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July 7th, 2015
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Karen Kaspar
Very interesting species! Lf
Carol Senske replied:
They really are. They appear able to "learn", in a sense, which is remarkable. Here is a stellar show on them. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/secret-mind-of-slime/