Myxomycetes - hidden world (36 photos)

Myxomycetes - specific organisms that have characteristics of both animals and plants.
Also, apparently they resemble miniature mushrooms, and Systematics include them in the realm of algae due to the nature way of eating ...

The cycle of these creatures is very curious. The main body is a vegetative plasmodium - the transparent plasma mass growing in damp dark places, under leaves or in the old rotting stumps.
Plasmodium at this stage is fed mainly bacteria and, quite surprisingly, capable of moving at a speed of about 5 mm per hour. During the breeding season plasmodium moves to illuminate the area, it formed nodules, at a certain stage in transforming miniature fruiting bodies of fantastic shapes and colors.
Their size can reach 10 cm, but most do not exceed one millimeter.
The transformation lasts from several hours to several days.

Myxomycetes - tiny creatures whose diversity is as great as that of plants.
Due to the variety and bright color of slime molds are of great interest for makrofotosёmki ...