Spores for these slime molds grow inside clusters of finger-shaped sporangia. Dewdrops cling to the sporangia of Physarum album as they open to release their spores.

This slime mold was a chocolate tube slime mold, member of the genus Stemonitis, a distinctive genus of slime molds that are characterized by upright, tubular brown projections (sporangia ...

One particular slime mold is named “dog vomit” due to its appearance. Skip to content. NOWCAST WDSU News at 10 pm Saturday. Watch on Demand ... the sporangia dry to a crusty or dusty crud.

Dried sporangia and spores of the insect egg slime mold. Photo taken on Stanford campus by Robert David Siegel, MD PHD, Stanford University. Over 1000 species of slime molds have been identified.

Jeff Mitton Natural Selections. Slime molds were once grouped with fungi, but are now considered protists, a heterogeneous group that is cellular and mobile, but are not animals or plants or fungi.