Fantastic Fungi | Trailer

Happy #SlimeMoldSunday from this sunny bright pile of pulsing plasmodium! .Acellular slime molds (Myxogastria) form one giant multinucleated cell (called a plasmodium), moving and crawling around their environment consuming organic matter in their path. As conditions dictate, they will start forming a spore bearing fruiting body called a sporangium (or in this base an aethelium). Here you can see the plasmodium “breathing” in timelapse as the intracellular flow of cellular components shifts ever

Happy slime mold Sunday. Acellular slime molds (Myxogastria) fuse together to form one giant multinucleated cell, moving and crawling around their environment consuming organic matter in their path. As conditions dictate, they will start forming a spore bearing fruiting body called sporangia. Here you can see the plasmodium “breathing” in timelapse as the intracellular flow of cellular components shifts every ~90s in a process called cytoplasmic streaming. Slime molds display the ability to navi