These are the beautiful spore-producing structures of plasmodial slime molds. Which is your favourite colour?
Originally considered Fungi, these Myxomycetes are now classed as Amoebozoans - single celled organisms with thousands of nuclei... not animals or fungi but something else entirely!
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A photograph of slime mold fruiting bodies on a log. The slime molds are a round black blobs on red stalks.
A photograph of a slime mold fruiting body on a log. The slime mold is a round orange blob on a transparent stalk.
A photograph of slime mold fruiting bodies on a log. The slime molds are a round white blobs on transparent stalks.