![]() Rooting would hinder their ability to move about in search of food. ![]() are different from other molds and fungi in that they do not grow roots into surfaces. They move by pulsating, though I have no idea how they manage to pulse in the first place. Such organisms are called 'plasmodia' and are made up of protoplasm, the same stuff inside most single cells. ![]() So, slime molds (slime/s), like Stemonitis sp., are large single-celled organisms containing multiple nuclei and lacking cell walls. I'm over that food problem now and will eat such things, but, if I have a choice between pudding/gelatin and anything else, Else always wins. Also, "The Blob" ruined my desire to enjoy puddings and gelatins. The dream was one of those commonly experienced 'chase' situations that most people have from time to time, in which someone or some 'thing' is after you. The most recent nightmare was just a few years ago. The memory of "The Blob" gave me frights as a child when I'd notice shadows under doors and caused me nightmares for many years. I saw the Steve McQueen version of "The Blob" when I was a little kid. There are different forms of slime molds, but this one is particularly disturbing (to me) because it's basically "The Blob" until it becomes hairy, as in my photos. Perhaps it's not very noticeable when it's normal. ![]() I don't know what this slime mold looks like in its normal thriving state. The spores eventually fall off and are spread by wind, and possibly other means. When it runs out of food, or conditions become otherwise unfavorable, it sprouts super-thin black hairs on which brown spore groups grow. I'll explain.įirst, I have to point out that Stemonitis splendens (Stemonitis sp.) typically does not appear as in my photos. My research uncovered details of living things I believed to be fiction things that, nevertheless, jad haunted my childhood and have, conceivably, dimmed my overall life experience ever so slightly. In the course of discovering what it was I'd shot in these photographs I learned some disturbing facts. ![]()
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