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Trichia favoginea- plasmodial slime mold

Description: Trichia favoginea is a plasmodial slime mold. It is often an easy family to recognize as the spore-mass is brightly colored, producing stalked or sessile sporangia. It has a capillitium consisting of solid or tubular, smooth or sculptured, free or attached, threadlike elements. In this picture are several fruit-bodies, most have popped open from drying up. A plasmodial slime mold is an autonomous organism that begins life as it emerges from a spore. In its first stage, it is an amoeba. If this organism finds a partner, they coalesce and turn into an ameboid organism. Under good conditions, this develops into a plasmodium, an organism with a cover and with millions of cell nuclei. The plasmodium nourishes itself from bacterias, yeasts, fungi or dissolved nutrients. The plasmodium of Trichia favoginea is white or yellow. Slime molds were once regarded as a fungus but later classified with the Protista.

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Legacy Identifier: BB3341

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Size: 2802px × 2100px (~16 MB)

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