Nature Photos

Image 1. This plasmodium (bottom) is changing into its fruiting stage (top).
From the Oregon Cascades.

Image 2. This plasmodium (bottom) is changing into its fruiting stage (top).
From the Oregon Cascades.

Image 3. This plasmodium (bottom) is changing into its fruiting stage (top).
From the Oregon Cascades?

Image 4. The clear to milky plasmodium is changing into its fruiting stage
first white then brown. On a dead leaf, from northwestern California.

Image 5. The plasmodial stage can be seen at the top of the picture;
the yellow mass might be the beginnings of a sclerotium rather than sporangia.
On wood, from southern Ontario.

Image 6. The early stage of a sclerotium? On wood, from southern Ontario.

Image 7. The plasmodium is more "slimy" at the bottom of the picture,
but more like the fruiting stage on top.
On wood, from Olympic National Park, Washington.