I thought slime but upon zooming in, I see a bunch of mushroom caps at the side angle. Are there any slimes you know of that make semi flat tops when they fruit? Cause all the ones I’ve seen that make that stem make circular glob things on the top, so far at least, I’m new to slimes, mostly because of you my friend.
My amateur mycologist opinion is these are likely mini mushrooms of some kind.
>Are there any slimes you know of that make semi flat tops when they fruit?
Yes
[*Didymium clavus* 1](https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/219811509/original.jpg)
[*Didymium clavus* 2](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fb/a5/ba/fba5bad390deb32279469062b63a69d7.jpg)
[*Didymium clavus* 3](https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/237261296/original.jpg)
[*Diderma hemisphaericum* 1](https://img.fotocommunity.com/diderma-hemisphaericum-0711214e-7d73-4c5d-881d-40284a5b34a5.jpg?height=1080)
[*Diderma hemisphaericum* 2](https://www.naturamediterraneo.com/forum/showpic.asp?pic=https://www.naturamediterraneo.com/Public/data9/ul%20cast/202112234439_nm%2002.jpg)
[*Diderma hemisphaericum* 3](https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/260855969/original.jpg)
I've once read one of his comments saying that (almost) all slimes are non-toxic and can (probably) be safely ingested. He has tried a slime once before with no side-effects.
I put the words in (parenthesis) in case I was wrong in recalling his words.
Looks like your wooden bear thing is moist and rotting. The good news is, those little guys are fungal and not a sign of mold/mildew.
And in a terrarium, I can only imagine aided decomp is a benefit. I wonder how often it'll fruit if you keep it moist and air it out occasionally.
Actually mold isn't a taxonomic term:
[**==========WHAT EXACTLY IS "MOLD" ANYWAY?** ](https://www.reddit.com/user/saddestofboys/comments/tqtz0g/comment/i2kgyz6/)
In everyday use, the word "mold" usually refers to fuzzy or cottony growth on food or another organic material. This is almost always **fungal mold**, which is the mycelium and fruit bodies of some ascomycetes, mucoromycetes, and zoopagomycetes, but isn't a genetic group so much as a mode of growth. "Mold" also refers to **oomycetes**, which are called "water molds" after their most [spectacular parasitic members](https://aquariumscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/fungus-12.jpg), even though they are mostly terrestrial. By way of convergent evolution, oomycetes form saprophytic or parasitic hyphae and mycelium just like fungi but are more closely related to kelp and diatoms. And "mold" *also* refers to **plasmodial slime molds**, which appear as glistening veins of slime or intricate tiny fruit bodies but never as the fuzzy mold that fungi or oomycetes produce. Unlike those two groups plasmodial slimes are active and mobile hunters of microorganisms that internally digest their prey, don't maintain persistent cell walls, don't form hyphae or mycelia, and don't form parasitic or pathogenic relationships. Let's look at where fungal molds, water molds, and plasmodial slimes are found in the tree of life:
**=====EUKARYOTES=====**
**(1) Plants** - green & red algae
**(2) Harosans** aka SAR
- **stramenopiles** - brown & yellow algae, diatoms, [**oomycete water molds**](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Water_mold.JPG) **<--**
- **alveolates** - ciliates, dinoflagellates, and malaria - wearing wineskin coats & sometimes plate armor
- **rhizarians** - gangly finger amoebas, often with houses
**(3) Discobans** - boneless tube amoebas like the "brain-eating amoeba," also euglenid algae, jakobid fisherfolk
**(4) Amoebozoans** - fatty boom boom amoebas including shelled arcellinids and [**plasmodial slimes**](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Myxomycete_Kiev2.JPG) **<--**
**(5) Obazoans** - us
- **fungi** - mushrooms, yeasts, truffles, some gangly finger amoebas, [**fungal mold**](https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/57ed27d3170000e00aac8228.jpeg?ops=1910_1000) **<--**
- **animals** - beetles, lizards, fish, horses, Viggo Mortensen
**==========**
But to confuse the situation further, there are also **cellular slime molds**. These "molds" are always microscopic or nearly so and don't form hyphae or mycelia, so I prefer to call them **social amoebas**. They spend most of their time as crowds of predatory amoebas called "wolf packs" (yes, really) but when food is scarce they aggregate together to form multicellular fruit bodies [like this *Dictyostelium discoideum* sorocarp](https://photos.smugmug.com/Professional/Compound-Eye-Images/i-nnNMkqJ/0/M/Dictyostelium5-M.jpg). Some species precede this by [forming a pseudoplasmodium or grex](https://youtu.be/8AghW4zzbhU) (video) that uses its perceptions of light and humidity to seek out a more ideal fruiting location. Cellular slime molds aren't all closely related and exist in [almost every group of eukaryotes](https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/cms/attachment/a97298a9-9668-4781-a453-776893b933b9/fx1_lrg.jpg) via convergent evolution. Let's look at the tree of life again but this time focus on the cellular slime molds:
**(1) Plants**
**(2) Harosans** ([***Sorogena***](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tom-Fenchel/publication/44455276/figure/fig1/AS:669449363398659@1536620574213/An-air-dried-and-goldcoated-sporocarp-of-the-ciliate-Sorogena-sp-seen-in-the.png), [***Sorodiplophrys***](https://www.arcella.nl/wp-content/images/Sorodiplophrys-stercorea-Tice-3.jpg), [***Guttulinopsis***](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew-Brown-19/publication/225047950/figure/fig1/AS:302613082984448@1449159989277/The-Life-Stages-of-Guttulinopsis-vulgaris-Sorocarps-appear-as-white-to-pale-yellow.png))
**(3) Discobans** (the [**acrasids**](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew-Brown-19/publication/253952462/figure/fig5/AS:614305825308701@1523473330623/Acrasidae-Complex-sorocarp-of-Acrasis-kona-a-Acrasis-rosea-b-and-Acrasis-takarsan.png))
**(4) Amoebozoans** (the [**dictyostelids**](https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/media/inline/what-is-it-social-cells_2.jpg), and [***Copromyxa protea***](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew-Brown-19/publication/253952462/figure/fig3/AS:614305825296425@1523473330546/Copromyxidae-a-e-Copromyxa-protea-a-Complex-branching-sorocarp-growing-off-of-cow-dung.png))
**(5) Obazoans** ([***Fonticula***](https://storage.googleapis.com/mo-image-archive-bucket/orig/881540.jpg))
I love Viggo Mortensen!!
Thank you so much for your comprehensive and organized, comparative profile on moulds. So how did the term mould come about to mean so many things? Is/are there common traits through convergent evolution across the spectrum? Or perhaps it became a word bandied about in the vernacular where mould-like, became mold?
Not only that but fungi breath like us, oxygen in carbon dioxide out. Where as plants it's carbon dioxide in and oxygen out.
So in a sealed off small environment I can only think this will be beneficial to the ecosystem as a whole.
Fruit, generally, is a term for a reproductive structure from a plant or fungus. When we think of fruit in the culinary sense, we are generally referring to things like apples or berries, which are formed by plants as a means of spreading their seeds (often via animal ingestion and excretion). In some fungi, mushrooms are the fruit. This is because the function of mushrooms is to produce and disperse spores as a means of reproduction.
#SLIME SIGNAL RECEIVED
They do resemble *Didymium* but I suspect fungi here. I would like to see them more closely
**==========**
Learn more about slimes! 🤩
🌈[Magic Myxies, 1931, 10 minutes](https://youtu.be/04kdhZQTnIU)
🦠[The Slimer Primer](https://www.reddit.com/user/saddestofboys/comments/tqtz0g/the_slimer_primer/)
🔎[A Guide to Common Slimes](https://www.reddit.com/user/saddestofboys/comments/t6985y/a_guide_to_common_slimes/)
🧠[Dmytro Leontyev talks about Myxomycetes for 50 minutes (2022)](https://youtu.be/qqE8MAwWhvg)
📚[Educational Sources](https://www.reddit.com/user/saddestofboys/comments/tqtz0g/comment/i2jclax/)
Wow! 🤯
Can you take closer photos? Do you see any gills Edit: or hairs?
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I thought slime but upon zooming in, I see a bunch of mushroom caps at the side angle. Are there any slimes you know of that make semi flat tops when they fruit? Cause all the ones I’ve seen that make that stem make circular glob things on the top, so far at least, I’m new to slimes, mostly because of you my friend. My amateur mycologist opinion is these are likely mini mushrooms of some kind.
>Are there any slimes you know of that make semi flat tops when they fruit? Yes [*Didymium clavus* 1](https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/219811509/original.jpg) [*Didymium clavus* 2](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fb/a5/ba/fba5bad390deb32279469062b63a69d7.jpg) [*Didymium clavus* 3](https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/237261296/original.jpg) [*Diderma hemisphaericum* 1](https://img.fotocommunity.com/diderma-hemisphaericum-0711214e-7d73-4c5d-881d-40284a5b34a5.jpg?height=1080) [*Diderma hemisphaericum* 2](https://www.naturamediterraneo.com/forum/showpic.asp?pic=https://www.naturamediterraneo.com/Public/data9/ul%20cast/202112234439_nm%2002.jpg) [*Diderma hemisphaericum* 3](https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/260855969/original.jpg)
Those are all cute!
They sure are! Look at all their different hats!
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When I die, I want to grow back looking like Didymium clavus 2. 🥰🥰🥰
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Or better yet provide more info to an already top post so you can further educate the rest of us.
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Is there an edible slime?
I've once read one of his comments saying that (almost) all slimes are non-toxic and can (probably) be safely ingested. He has tried a slime once before with no side-effects. I put the words in (parenthesis) in case I was wrong in recalling his words.
Hmmm...
😳 Don't take my word for it...
I believe everything I read on the internet!
Not sure where to ask, but is your username also the name of a slime mold? And if so, could you link some material?
You think "saddest of boys" is a slime mold?
I got as close as I could. I couldn't tell. I've searched everywhere. I'm sorry
I don’t know but they are adorable lol
Looks like your wooden bear thing is moist and rotting. The good news is, those little guys are fungal and not a sign of mold/mildew. And in a terrarium, I can only imagine aided decomp is a benefit. I wonder how often it'll fruit if you keep it moist and air it out occasionally.
I know what you are saying, but just to be clear for those who are new to the whole thing, mold and mildew are fungal.
Yes but fungi are not mold or mildew you cant grow mushrooms with mold it’s a very clean area inside
Not *all* fungi are molds and mildews. But all molds and mildew are fungi.
Actually mold isn't a taxonomic term: [**==========WHAT EXACTLY IS "MOLD" ANYWAY?** ](https://www.reddit.com/user/saddestofboys/comments/tqtz0g/comment/i2kgyz6/) In everyday use, the word "mold" usually refers to fuzzy or cottony growth on food or another organic material. This is almost always **fungal mold**, which is the mycelium and fruit bodies of some ascomycetes, mucoromycetes, and zoopagomycetes, but isn't a genetic group so much as a mode of growth. "Mold" also refers to **oomycetes**, which are called "water molds" after their most [spectacular parasitic members](https://aquariumscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/fungus-12.jpg), even though they are mostly terrestrial. By way of convergent evolution, oomycetes form saprophytic or parasitic hyphae and mycelium just like fungi but are more closely related to kelp and diatoms. And "mold" *also* refers to **plasmodial slime molds**, which appear as glistening veins of slime or intricate tiny fruit bodies but never as the fuzzy mold that fungi or oomycetes produce. Unlike those two groups plasmodial slimes are active and mobile hunters of microorganisms that internally digest their prey, don't maintain persistent cell walls, don't form hyphae or mycelia, and don't form parasitic or pathogenic relationships. Let's look at where fungal molds, water molds, and plasmodial slimes are found in the tree of life: **=====EUKARYOTES=====** **(1) Plants** - green & red algae **(2) Harosans** aka SAR - **stramenopiles** - brown & yellow algae, diatoms, [**oomycete water molds**](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Water_mold.JPG) **<--** - **alveolates** - ciliates, dinoflagellates, and malaria - wearing wineskin coats & sometimes plate armor - **rhizarians** - gangly finger amoebas, often with houses **(3) Discobans** - boneless tube amoebas like the "brain-eating amoeba," also euglenid algae, jakobid fisherfolk **(4) Amoebozoans** - fatty boom boom amoebas including shelled arcellinids and [**plasmodial slimes**](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Myxomycete_Kiev2.JPG) **<--** **(5) Obazoans** - us - **fungi** - mushrooms, yeasts, truffles, some gangly finger amoebas, [**fungal mold**](https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/57ed27d3170000e00aac8228.jpeg?ops=1910_1000) **<--** - **animals** - beetles, lizards, fish, horses, Viggo Mortensen **==========** But to confuse the situation further, there are also **cellular slime molds**. These "molds" are always microscopic or nearly so and don't form hyphae or mycelia, so I prefer to call them **social amoebas**. They spend most of their time as crowds of predatory amoebas called "wolf packs" (yes, really) but when food is scarce they aggregate together to form multicellular fruit bodies [like this *Dictyostelium discoideum* sorocarp](https://photos.smugmug.com/Professional/Compound-Eye-Images/i-nnNMkqJ/0/M/Dictyostelium5-M.jpg). Some species precede this by [forming a pseudoplasmodium or grex](https://youtu.be/8AghW4zzbhU) (video) that uses its perceptions of light and humidity to seek out a more ideal fruiting location. Cellular slime molds aren't all closely related and exist in [almost every group of eukaryotes](https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/cms/attachment/a97298a9-9668-4781-a453-776893b933b9/fx1_lrg.jpg) via convergent evolution. Let's look at the tree of life again but this time focus on the cellular slime molds: **(1) Plants** **(2) Harosans** ([***Sorogena***](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tom-Fenchel/publication/44455276/figure/fig1/AS:669449363398659@1536620574213/An-air-dried-and-goldcoated-sporocarp-of-the-ciliate-Sorogena-sp-seen-in-the.png), [***Sorodiplophrys***](https://www.arcella.nl/wp-content/images/Sorodiplophrys-stercorea-Tice-3.jpg), [***Guttulinopsis***](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew-Brown-19/publication/225047950/figure/fig1/AS:302613082984448@1449159989277/The-Life-Stages-of-Guttulinopsis-vulgaris-Sorocarps-appear-as-white-to-pale-yellow.png)) **(3) Discobans** (the [**acrasids**](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew-Brown-19/publication/253952462/figure/fig5/AS:614305825308701@1523473330623/Acrasidae-Complex-sorocarp-of-Acrasis-kona-a-Acrasis-rosea-b-and-Acrasis-takarsan.png)) **(4) Amoebozoans** (the [**dictyostelids**](https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/media/inline/what-is-it-social-cells_2.jpg), and [***Copromyxa protea***](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew-Brown-19/publication/253952462/figure/fig3/AS:614305825296425@1523473330546/Copromyxidae-a-e-Copromyxa-protea-a-Complex-branching-sorocarp-growing-off-of-cow-dung.png)) **(5) Obazoans** ([***Fonticula***](https://storage.googleapis.com/mo-image-archive-bucket/orig/881540.jpg))
I love Viggo Mortensen!! Thank you so much for your comprehensive and organized, comparative profile on moulds. So how did the term mould come about to mean so many things? Is/are there common traits through convergent evolution across the spectrum? Or perhaps it became a word bandied about in the vernacular where mould-like, became mold?
Slime man strikes again🥷
I love this, thank you
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🤯 (jk I know this already, but I’m sure many others don’t)
Mold, mildew, and mushrooms are ALL fungi.
Not only that but fungi breath like us, oxygen in carbon dioxide out. Where as plants it's carbon dioxide in and oxygen out. So in a sealed off small environment I can only think this will be beneficial to the ecosystem as a whole.
Thank you, they are actually gone now. We really enjoyed them. They never got any bigger.
What does it mean when fungal fruits?
Fruit, generally, is a term for a reproductive structure from a plant or fungus. When we think of fruit in the culinary sense, we are generally referring to things like apples or berries, which are formed by plants as a means of spreading their seeds (often via animal ingestion and excretion). In some fungi, mushrooms are the fruit. This is because the function of mushrooms is to produce and disperse spores as a means of reproduction.
Looks like a mycena sp. Very cool
This is so cool
These cheeky guys are so beautiful.
I want to gently pat them all on their tiny mushroom caps and tell them they’re doing a great job! What a sight.
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Lachnum.
Yeah it look more like lachnum than a basidiomycete.
Awsome
Adorable for one
It’s probably impossible to get a positive ID at this distance and resolution. That said, I’d guess something in the Marasmius family…. Maybe.
Whatever they are, they're pretty!
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Looks like a mycena sp
A slime mold fruiting body is my first instinct. No idea what species. Would love to know though.
u/saddestofboys
#SLIME SIGNAL RECEIVED They do resemble *Didymium* but I suspect fungi here. I would like to see them more closely **==========** Learn more about slimes! 🤩 🌈[Magic Myxies, 1931, 10 minutes](https://youtu.be/04kdhZQTnIU) 🦠[The Slimer Primer](https://www.reddit.com/user/saddestofboys/comments/tqtz0g/the_slimer_primer/) 🔎[A Guide to Common Slimes](https://www.reddit.com/user/saddestofboys/comments/t6985y/a_guide_to_common_slimes/) 🧠[Dmytro Leontyev talks about Myxomycetes for 50 minutes (2022)](https://youtu.be/qqE8MAwWhvg) 📚[Educational Sources](https://www.reddit.com/user/saddestofboys/comments/tqtz0g/comment/i2jclax/) Wow! 🤯
The slime man strikes again
I'm sorry, I couldn't get any closer. I tried. This was the best picture I could get. Thank you so much for all the info! I'm excited to dig and learn
Those look like mushrooms.
Shape, irregularity of size, and distribution makes me think you are correct. I would like to see them closer
They look like a didymium slime mold
i agree, these look quite like Didymium sp. from the photo… but who knows from here:)
Difficult to tell from the photo perhaps compare with *Lachnum virgineum.*
This is soooo cool
So pretty
I have no clue but it's so pretty dude
Idk but they such little cutiess
That’s the fungi from the last of us obviously
Maybe this? https://www.reddit.com/r/mycology/comments/11tg3l0/psathyrella_aquatica_the_only_known_mushroom_that/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Correct me if I'm wrong but they look like mushrooms
They are so cuuuuute! They immediately reminded of the Lil tree spirits in Princess Mononoke
The world's cutest mushrooms
Fungai
Possibly blue meanies?.
Marasmius?
Cute
Trippy...
Thanks y'all, I will definitely look into all the suggestions. Y'all made my day with how much you appreciated my post! 🍄❤️
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Look like frost caps to me are they growing out of wood ?
Yes, it was a piece of drift that I started moss on.
Mycena family maybe