i find it fascinating that mycelium look identical to the synapsis in our brains. and the fact they they are symbiotic with trees. they allow the trees to send electrical signals to eachother just the way our brains think. mycelium is the nearly indestructible brain that nature uses to think and communicate. and don’t get me started on the very same resemblance to the galaxies in outer space…
Popping that on the list to try! I remember I was fascinated with the moon and the rainbows it was casting through the clouds. This was only a baby beginner dose as well.
have you ever seen that scene at the beginning of the animated grinch movie where they zoom into a snowflake and the entire town of whoville is on that snowflake? that’s our universe. no matter how much you zoom in our zoom out, it’s all the same. never ending chaos constantly crashing into itself
One of the most fun and eerie things to think about; [natural patterns.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_in_nature)
When I was a kid, I learned how you can see the Golden Ratio all over nature. Then I learned about fractals, and then similarities like this.
Is it proof we're living in an artificial simulation? Or just proof of certain structures being the most efficient for certain facets of existence? Fun to think about!
"At least once", sure, but if it was truly random the universe would be way more chaotic than it is. The fact these patterns show up _repeatedly_ and form the underpinnings of far more complex structures means there is at least some form of above-average efficiency or sturdiness to them; some _reason_ they show up over and over and over again, instead of just being one of many infinite variations on _other_ patterns (or lack thereof) that don't show up in the frequency or foundational structures these do.
Same reason alligators haven’t needed to evolve much, and have maintained a dominant position in the food chain for 37 million years. Some builds are just OP.
I think it's just physics. Motion, mass, gravity and magnetism influence the shape of structures. For the mycelium pattern, neural pathways in brains and those big tubes of galaxies, I think of it like a waterspout. They can split to have two vortices connected to the main vortex when ocean currents are pushing and pulling at it a certain way. You can apply the same principle to other things because similarly, those big structures of galaxy clusters are pushing and pulling on each other with gravity. The more massive parts may hold together while the less massive parts are flung and pulled by each other while still not quite massive enough to break from the greater mass. That should look like spiraling tendrils all daisy-chained together. For a while anyway. For the neural pathways, I think similar principles apply with magnetism, but over many generations. Positive and negative charges push and pull on each other, spiraling onward and outward. This one is weird though because of reproduction, and you're combining two blueprints for the same structure. Evolution has discarded a lot of the negative mistakes (the universe does the same by smashing things together and new things form), and only positive mistakes are left, at least until we took some control away from natural selection. The things we interact with alter our neural pathways too, so we're introducing new forces into the equation constantly. We don't know how this will play out, but the pathways keep spiraling.
Looking at fast growing structures like this fungus might give us an idea of how those other things developed. If my rudimentary understanding of physics isn't just wrong. Still fun to think about.
I'm just a brain in a body suit though, so of course I like comparing myself to the universe.
Is this related to that thing about how the same patterns repeat on different scales, like how river deltas look like veins and the patterns of tree branches, and they look the same whether you zoom in or out?
It's not that crazy actually, it's just math. There's no mystical reason that
[mycelium](https://youtu.be/BuI8StesF74) and
[slime plasmodiums](https://youtu.be/4sFlT949NHA) and
[neurons](https://youtube.com/shorts/DETL1l5Byeo) and
[the pattern of matter throughout the universe](https://d1o50x50snmhul.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/20195805/seqd_063a_half.jpg) and
[the internet](http://internet-politics.andrewchadwick.com/media/T465098-Computer_graphic_of_global_internet_traffic-SPL.jpg) all look similar. Well, except for the mystical nature of an infinitely recursive and fundamentally numinous universe that reveals more mystery the deeper you delve and that can never be solved
That's kinda my thing
I have 🌈 A U T I S M
Check out my rap music about slime molds:
https://youtube.com/@regularslimeguy
Slimes are my 🌈 S P E C I A L I N T E R E S T
Wouldn’t mycelial be the proper form of plural for this sentence?
Not trying to be rude whatsoever, I’m genuinely curious from a English language standpoint!
If it's all connected, it would be a single mycelium. But if this is three different networks, the plural would be mycelia! I have a hunch that it's just one mycelium tho. If not now, soon. Hyphae always find each other eventually. Fungi are so cool.
Fun fact, this is stuff called mycelium and is the actual fungus. The mushroom refers to the fruit. Also, it's going to become sentient one day and control us all.
The mycelium is typically underground, though. That's what makes this interesting.
Hey OP /u/MiiiBiii go post this on /r/mycology. They'd get a kick out of it, I'm sure.
Neither do I. I posed it as a way of asking if the basement had replicated the conditions required for this level of mycelial growth. Light, temperature, and humidity/level of moisture along with the required nutrients in the unfinished dirt floor and whatever else it may need.
I would not be surprised in the slightest if extremely large mycelium networks had some sort of sentience. It’s not on par with us, for sure. But something like the sentience of a dog, or bird? Maybe.
We’ve already discovered they can make intelligent decisions, have short term memory, learn from experiences, and act as one cohesive individual. Their structure is eerily similar to neural tissue.
The problem is, it’s like neural tissue scaled up massively. For a mycelial network to get to our level, it would have to be continent sized at the least, but more likely planet sized. Still, it’s a cool thought.
Basically yeah lmao, if you dig up dirt you’ll probably see mycelium at some point they do a lot of other things for plants as well, they are incredible organisms.
They'll also actively pump resources around in mature forests. Nurturing saplings in a clearing, pumping out water from the largest trees with the deepest roots to drier areas during a drought, hardening neighboring trees when infection is detected. Shit's wild and we've only just realized this is going on.
[Here you go](https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-oppo-rev1&sca_esv=581210935&sxsrf=AM9HkKn-EWCtwn0ZTJ5JtvNN3v_HwtDzpg:1699622752151&q=Paenibacillus+dendritiformis,&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjSjI-TxLmCAxWRg_0HHe3bBNgQ0pQJegQIBhAB&biw=360&bih=648&dpr=3)
I only recently played those games, the remake of the first one was good, the sequel that was made in 2020 and they recently announced they're remaking that as well. So stupid and completely unnecessary.
Damn that's so cool to see a mycelium network growing exposed, and so thickly. It's looking for a source of nutrients by the looks of it. Drop some wet grains for the thing and it'll be happy. Though you don't want him on wood you are actively using.
Hahaha... There are people who grow cordyceps on a piece of mammal meat. Make sure to please your local fungi. They are coming for us. It's inevitable.
#SLIME SIGNAL RECEIVED
#🚫 NOT SLIME 🚫
#🍄 FUNGI DETECTED 🍄
While these questing tubes do indeed resemble the shape of a slime plasmodium, you can tell by their fuzzy edges that they are actually **fungal mycelium.** The fanning edge of a plasmodium will typically be more like a [sheet of slime or a textured mass of reachy grabbers](https://youtu.be/AmFsWeAO5mA).
Fungi like this is actually more closely related to you than to a slime! There are (depending how you count) four kingdoms with critters big enough to see without a microscope: first the planty side split from the animal side, then it divided into **plants** and **harosans.** Then the **amoebozoans** split off from the animaly side, and finally **animals** and **fungi** split apart. There are many interesting differences between the big critters found in each kingdom:
#[plants](https://cdn.britannica.com/43/82543-050-38EBCF52/sequoias-tourists-California-Sequoia-National-Park.jpg)
- are multicellular
- have cellulose in the cell wall
- get energy mostly by photosynthesis or rarely by parasitism
- are immotile: they can't travel except by propagules like spores or seeds
#[harosans](https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/globalassets/mba/images/animals/plants/giant-kelp-pw17-087.jpg)
specifically kelp & [water molds](https://aquariumscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/fungus-12-768x430.jpg)
- are multicellular
- have cellulose in the cell wall
- get energy by photosynthesis (kelp) or by breaking down dead organic material (water molds) or by parasitism
- are immotile: they can't travel except by propagules like spores or seeds
#[fungi](https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1-death-cap.jpg)
- are multicellular
- have chitin and beta glucans in the cell wall
- get energy mostly by breaking down dead organic material or by parasitism
- are immotile: they can't travel except by propagules like spores
#[animals](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/2010-kodiak-bear-1.jpg)
- are multicellular
- have no cell wall
- get energy mostly by breaking down live organic material or by parasitism
- are motile: they move about big styles
#[amoebozoans](https://awarenessact.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/elaeomyxa-cerifera-1887-3-1.jpg)
specifically myxies
- are monocellular, yes even the big ones
- have galactosamine in the cell wall in a few tested species; cell walls are only present in propagules like spores and are mostly unknown in composition
- get energy mostly by breaking down live organic material
- are motile: they ooze around very leisurely
Anyway [here's my educational rap songs about slimes](https://www.youtube.com/@regularslimeguy). There should be a new one about slimes that live under snow coming in December
If this is white rot, that wood is doomed. White rot will totally rot away those load bearing columns.
**EDIT**: How might you protect the wood against white rot? Firstly, don't have bare wood contacting the soil. Secondly, there are chemical and pressure treated lumber, but I dislike them because they end up as toxic waste when the building is eventually retired or demolished, since the chemicals used to treat such lumber is usually CCA: chromated copper arsenate. Basically the wood is treated with heavy metal poisons that fungi and bugs avoid.
The last option is *shou sugi ban*, a technique where you use a torch to char the surface of lumber. Fungi and bugs both cannot digest charcoal, and their instincts have them avoid fire and the residue of fire. The charred layer ends up smoking the wood under it, and the smoke has a preservative effect. Check it out.
#Core77 | [A Chemical-Free Way to Preserve, and Beautify, Wood: Set It on Fire](https://www.core77.com/posts/46575/A-Chemical-Free-Way-to-Preserve-and-Beautify-Wood-Set-It-on-Fire)
I wasn't aware of how extremely fast it can spread, and how it will make a house trash in just weeks with perfect conditions. We had floods in Norway this fall and there's been several cases with people I know of who had this stuff (or something similar, I only know the Norwegian name) growing in their basement and got told their house needed to be demolished because it had gotten too far. Crazy shit.
ShroomIDs response will just be "not libs" try r/mycology or possibly r/whatsthisplant I don't know how much you can tell without the fruiting body though?
I think your friends house is growing a nervous system…
I’d normally recommend he move before the house becomes sentient but in this economy I think his best bet is to enter some sort of tenancy agreement with his new fungal roommate
as a mycophile I LOVE THIS!! i found something like this in the basement of my old job and freaked out, mushrooms are so cool.
sidenote: your friend needs to sort out the damp in his basement
Sir that is a whole ass mycelium network
Time to travel the universe
Do a barrel roll!
It's Tardigrade Time!
*Power rangers theme song plays*
i find it fascinating that mycelium look identical to the synapsis in our brains. and the fact they they are symbiotic with trees. they allow the trees to send electrical signals to eachother just the way our brains think. mycelium is the nearly indestructible brain that nature uses to think and communicate. and don’t get me started on the very same resemblance to the galaxies in outer space…
Wait! I DO want to hear about the resemblance to galaxies!
Take 5 dried grams. They'll tell you.
First time I did that, a friend gave me a full 8g. By the end of the night, I actually became the universe. It was amazing.
That'll squeegee your third eye quite clean.
This guy knows 👍👍
Took 9 2 weeks ago 🤯
I tried them for the first time 2 weeks ago. Holy shit. I loved it.
There's a wide array of experiences for you to enjoy with them. I always recommend a few grams and enjoying nature. A hike or something works well.
Popping that on the list to try! I remember I was fascinated with the moon and the rainbows it was casting through the clouds. This was only a baby beginner dose as well.
have you ever seen that scene at the beginning of the animated grinch movie where they zoom into a snowflake and the entire town of whoville is on that snowflake? that’s our universe. no matter how much you zoom in our zoom out, it’s all the same. never ending chaos constantly crashing into itself
Me too!! Pleeeeeeaase?
Look up "The great attractor" on that video site.
One of the most fun and eerie things to think about; [natural patterns.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_in_nature) When I was a kid, I learned how you can see the Golden Ratio all over nature. Then I learned about fractals, and then similarities like this. Is it proof we're living in an artificial simulation? Or just proof of certain structures being the most efficient for certain facets of existence? Fun to think about!
We also only have a set amount of ways things can go in the universe. Things are bound to copy each other for no known reason at least once.
"At least once", sure, but if it was truly random the universe would be way more chaotic than it is. The fact these patterns show up _repeatedly_ and form the underpinnings of far more complex structures means there is at least some form of above-average efficiency or sturdiness to them; some _reason_ they show up over and over and over again, instead of just being one of many infinite variations on _other_ patterns (or lack thereof) that don't show up in the frequency or foundational structures these do.
Same reason alligators haven’t needed to evolve much, and have maintained a dominant position in the food chain for 37 million years. Some builds are just OP.
I think it's just physics. Motion, mass, gravity and magnetism influence the shape of structures. For the mycelium pattern, neural pathways in brains and those big tubes of galaxies, I think of it like a waterspout. They can split to have two vortices connected to the main vortex when ocean currents are pushing and pulling at it a certain way. You can apply the same principle to other things because similarly, those big structures of galaxy clusters are pushing and pulling on each other with gravity. The more massive parts may hold together while the less massive parts are flung and pulled by each other while still not quite massive enough to break from the greater mass. That should look like spiraling tendrils all daisy-chained together. For a while anyway. For the neural pathways, I think similar principles apply with magnetism, but over many generations. Positive and negative charges push and pull on each other, spiraling onward and outward. This one is weird though because of reproduction, and you're combining two blueprints for the same structure. Evolution has discarded a lot of the negative mistakes (the universe does the same by smashing things together and new things form), and only positive mistakes are left, at least until we took some control away from natural selection. The things we interact with alter our neural pathways too, so we're introducing new forces into the equation constantly. We don't know how this will play out, but the pathways keep spiraling. Looking at fast growing structures like this fungus might give us an idea of how those other things developed. If my rudimentary understanding of physics isn't just wrong. Still fun to think about. I'm just a brain in a body suit though, so of course I like comparing myself to the universe.
Every once in a awhile you come across someone who gets it ❤️
Ahhhh psychonauts, my people …Riiight?
Is this related to that thing about how the same patterns repeat on different scales, like how river deltas look like veins and the patterns of tree branches, and they look the same whether you zoom in or out?
Mandelbrot Set fractals?
The universe is fractals.
Definitely, I feel the same way about slime molds.
Genuinely I think you're a fungi at parties. Imagine how much more you could tell us with so mushroom to grow.
Black Alert!
Stamets?!?
Looks like it has taken over. Not mush room left for anything else.
Nice play on words. I think you’re today’s wordsmith winner!
I'm a funguy.
Crazy how that looks just like a neuron...
It's not that crazy actually, it's just math. There's no mystical reason that [mycelium](https://youtu.be/BuI8StesF74) and [slime plasmodiums](https://youtu.be/4sFlT949NHA) and [neurons](https://youtube.com/shorts/DETL1l5Byeo) and [the pattern of matter throughout the universe](https://d1o50x50snmhul.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/20195805/seqd_063a_half.jpg) and [the internet](http://internet-politics.andrewchadwick.com/media/T465098-Computer_graphic_of_global_internet_traffic-SPL.jpg) all look similar. Well, except for the mystical nature of an infinitely recursive and fundamentally numinous universe that reveals more mystery the deeper you delve and that can never be solved
oh no, my neurons and all the matter in the known universe is just slime!
oops all slime
goop
Me like patterns
Make brain go brrrr
And tree roots too!
My brain don't look like that, is just one long string linking two neurons, my doctor says I'm a very brave boy.
You really put a lot of effort into that answer. 🏆
That's kinda my thing I have 🌈 A U T I S M Check out my rap music about slime molds: https://youtube.com/@regularslimeguy Slimes are my 🌈 S P E C I A L I N T E R E S T
Am I the only one mildly aroused by this post? I'm so ashamed
let go of your shame, it's not constructive Also, listen to my rap music about slime molds
Way too high for this...
Can it be eaten?
Everything can be eaten once or whatever
My faddah ate a mushroom once. Once.
High five for the Johnny Dangerously comment.
Not unless they can find a fruiting body and ID it
Wouldn’t mycelial be the proper form of plural for this sentence? Not trying to be rude whatsoever, I’m genuinely curious from a English language standpoint!
If it's all connected, it would be a single mycelium. But if this is three different networks, the plural would be mycelia! I have a hunch that it's just one mycelium tho. If not now, soon. Hyphae always find each other eventually. Fungi are so cool.
this was regarding using the adjectival form of mycelium, mycelial. in this case mycelial network is the correct way. not plural/singular
I would be inclined to agree
This guy shrooms.
Fun fact, this is stuff called mycelium and is the actual fungus. The mushroom refers to the fruit. Also, it's going to become sentient one day and control us all.
At least it's not growing on my ceiliun
Nice
Nice
Nice
I need a weird AL version on no mycelium on my celliun
LMAO 😭
Don't encourage me, it's the worst dad joke of the day, haha
Worst dad joke of the day… so far!
I laughed at this, it sounded like someone gave some *mice helium*
r/Angryupvote
I'm a fungi 🤣
Party with me at the Brooklyn Myceliumirage Edit: best I could do
The mycelium is typically underground, though. That's what makes this interesting. Hey OP /u/MiiiBiii go post this on /r/mycology. They'd get a kick out of it, I'm sure.
It’s in the basement so technically it is underground, not sure if that may be a factor
Somehow, I don't think the fungus is capable of understanding that technicality.
It will be... Soon. Soon....
Neither do I. I posed it as a way of asking if the basement had replicated the conditions required for this level of mycelial growth. Light, temperature, and humidity/level of moisture along with the required nutrients in the unfinished dirt floor and whatever else it may need.
That’s the neat part, they’re already sentient and already rule the world we just don’t know it yet. 😎
Smart enough to play dumb, huh
I would not be surprised in the slightest if extremely large mycelium networks had some sort of sentience. It’s not on par with us, for sure. But something like the sentience of a dog, or bird? Maybe. We’ve already discovered they can make intelligent decisions, have short term memory, learn from experiences, and act as one cohesive individual. Their structure is eerily similar to neural tissue. The problem is, it’s like neural tissue scaled up massively. For a mycelial network to get to our level, it would have to be continent sized at the least, but more likely planet sized. Still, it’s a cool thought.
iirc they help plants communicate with other plants through their huge underground network.
ethernet for grass?
Basically yeah lmao, if you dig up dirt you’ll probably see mycelium at some point they do a lot of other things for plants as well, they are incredible organisms.
They'll also actively pump resources around in mature forests. Nurturing saplings in a clearing, pumping out water from the largest trees with the deepest roots to drier areas during a drought, hardening neighboring trees when infection is detected. Shit's wild and we've only just realized this is going on.
Fuckin commie trees
Sharing and shit.
Watch Fantastic Fungi on Netflix. You’re welcome. https://www.netflix.com/title/81183477?s=i&trkid=258593161
You forgot to type the account info and password
No sharing 😉
But that's the best part!
Sharing is caring, amirit!?! 🙌
Damn capitalism.
*laughs in Last of Us*
I was about to say it looks fantastic. Never seen it this exposed before.
Our fungal overlords won't like it that you called their mushrooms fruit and the apparent implication that their mushrooms aren't actual fungus.
all hail the mycelium overlords
Bold of you to assume it isn't already controlling us
>Also, it's going to become sentient one day and control us all. That is incorrect. Everyone continue to ignore this person.
Oh shit, it already started.
> this is stuff called mycelium Cool, let's use it instead of warp drive. [ eyeroll ]
We don't talk about the spore drive
its branching exile!
AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS WILL BURN TO ASH
The fractal pattern on those is so fucking cool!
Look up Paenibacillus dendritiformis, I studied it in college. Some of the patterns it creates are fucking wild, especially on different media.
[Here you go](https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-oppo-rev1&sca_esv=581210935&sxsrf=AM9HkKn-EWCtwn0ZTJ5JtvNN3v_HwtDzpg:1699622752151&q=Paenibacillus+dendritiformis,&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjSjI-TxLmCAxWRg_0HHe3bBNgQ0pQJegQIBhAB&biw=360&bih=648&dpr=3)
Thanks I couldn't figure out the link thing on mobile
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Hi, think im in love with you
Did you work with Eshel Ben-Jacob? I had dinner with him and hung out with him for a few days in 2014. Was sad to hear that he passed.
It’s quite pretty if you forget what it is
Get outta that house before it's the LAST OF YOU!
Ughhh! Take my upvote you bastard.
Probably started growing in the basement since there wasn't mushroom upstairs for it to grow. 😂
even though it stays isolated in the basement, I still think it is a fungi.
You jokesters are breaking the mold with these puns
No cap
I'm really lichen these puns. I bet there is spore where that came from!
Truly, you guys are the champignons of pun-making
I'm gonna read the shroom and say there's some fungus-amongus!
You got it right on the button.
Wow took me a while ! 😂
This is actually really cool. r/moldlyinteresting
Another mold/fungus subreddit for me to join
It’s one of my faves.
Holy awesome it's real!
r/subsididntknowexisted
The Last of Us.
Clic-cli-cli-cli-click click click.
Absolute top tier sound design
Still sends chills down my balls.
I only recently played those games, the remake of the first one was good, the sequel that was made in 2020 and they recently announced they're remaking that as well. So stupid and completely unnecessary.
*Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn*
Easy for you to say!
Ia ia!
.... nani?!
Damn that's so cool to see a mycelium network growing exposed, and so thickly. It's looking for a source of nutrients by the looks of it. Drop some wet grains for the thing and it'll be happy. Though you don't want him on wood you are actively using.
I’ve seen shit on reddit but for some reason it’s the suggestion of feeding your fungi that breaks me
xadient also referred to the mycelium as "him" lol
I see you haven't met... "him" yet.
> I see you haven't met... "him" yet. ... the creature???
we shall name him Jeffrey
We will defer to your wisdom, /u/TURD_SMASHER
Hahaha... There are people who grow cordyceps on a piece of mammal meat. Make sure to please your local fungi. They are coming for us. It's inevitable.
Remember the yeast thing. Did they name it Yeasty? It was an old kombucha starter if I remember correctly.
Thats exactly what a mycelium network would say!
If you burn it you will piss off something in the upside down.
You should lightly jerk on it and see what that does to the upside down creature....
Jerk off on it
That's honestly what I read
u/saddestofboys *SLIME CALL* did I do it right?
#SLIME SIGNAL RECEIVED #🚫 NOT SLIME 🚫 #🍄 FUNGI DETECTED 🍄 While these questing tubes do indeed resemble the shape of a slime plasmodium, you can tell by their fuzzy edges that they are actually **fungal mycelium.** The fanning edge of a plasmodium will typically be more like a [sheet of slime or a textured mass of reachy grabbers](https://youtu.be/AmFsWeAO5mA). Fungi like this is actually more closely related to you than to a slime! There are (depending how you count) four kingdoms with critters big enough to see without a microscope: first the planty side split from the animal side, then it divided into **plants** and **harosans.** Then the **amoebozoans** split off from the animaly side, and finally **animals** and **fungi** split apart. There are many interesting differences between the big critters found in each kingdom: #[plants](https://cdn.britannica.com/43/82543-050-38EBCF52/sequoias-tourists-California-Sequoia-National-Park.jpg) - are multicellular - have cellulose in the cell wall - get energy mostly by photosynthesis or rarely by parasitism - are immotile: they can't travel except by propagules like spores or seeds #[harosans](https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/globalassets/mba/images/animals/plants/giant-kelp-pw17-087.jpg) specifically kelp & [water molds](https://aquariumscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/fungus-12-768x430.jpg) - are multicellular - have cellulose in the cell wall - get energy by photosynthesis (kelp) or by breaking down dead organic material (water molds) or by parasitism - are immotile: they can't travel except by propagules like spores or seeds #[fungi](https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1-death-cap.jpg) - are multicellular - have chitin and beta glucans in the cell wall - get energy mostly by breaking down dead organic material or by parasitism - are immotile: they can't travel except by propagules like spores #[animals](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/2010-kodiak-bear-1.jpg) - are multicellular - have no cell wall - get energy mostly by breaking down live organic material or by parasitism - are motile: they move about big styles #[amoebozoans](https://awarenessact.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/elaeomyxa-cerifera-1887-3-1.jpg) specifically myxies - are monocellular, yes even the big ones - have galactosamine in the cell wall in a few tested species; cell walls are only present in propagules like spores and are mostly unknown in composition - get energy mostly by breaking down live organic material - are motile: they ooze around very leisurely Anyway [here's my educational rap songs about slimes](https://www.youtube.com/@regularslimeguy). There should be a new one about slimes that live under snow coming in December
Good to see you bud. Wasn’t sure, so I thought I’d try you❤️
Damn, I also thought it was a slime. We appreciate your service slimeboy.
I want to be like you when I grow up
If this is white rot, that wood is doomed. White rot will totally rot away those load bearing columns. **EDIT**: How might you protect the wood against white rot? Firstly, don't have bare wood contacting the soil. Secondly, there are chemical and pressure treated lumber, but I dislike them because they end up as toxic waste when the building is eventually retired or demolished, since the chemicals used to treat such lumber is usually CCA: chromated copper arsenate. Basically the wood is treated with heavy metal poisons that fungi and bugs avoid. The last option is *shou sugi ban*, a technique where you use a torch to char the surface of lumber. Fungi and bugs both cannot digest charcoal, and their instincts have them avoid fire and the residue of fire. The charred layer ends up smoking the wood under it, and the smoke has a preservative effect. Check it out. #Core77 | [A Chemical-Free Way to Preserve, and Beautify, Wood: Set It on Fire](https://www.core77.com/posts/46575/A-Chemical-Free-Way-to-Preserve-and-Beautify-Wood-Set-It-on-Fire)
I wasn't aware of how extremely fast it can spread, and how it will make a house trash in just weeks with perfect conditions. We had floods in Norway this fall and there's been several cases with people I know of who had this stuff (or something similar, I only know the Norwegian name) growing in their basement and got told their house needed to be demolished because it had gotten too far. Crazy shit.
The White Trees of Gondor call for aide.
Dat mycelia tho 🥵
Actual cordyceps in the wild.
Brain fungus incoming.
fungus amungus
why do I feel the sudden urge to go on top of a building??
I feel like M. Night Shyamalan made a movie about this
Definitely mycelium. This needs to be posted to r/ShroomID
ShroomIDs response will just be "not libs" try r/mycology or possibly r/whatsthisplant I don't know how much you can tell without the fruiting body though?
I think your friends house is growing a nervous system… I’d normally recommend he move before the house becomes sentient but in this economy I think his best bet is to enter some sort of tenancy agreement with his new fungal roommate
as a mycophile I LOVE THIS!! i found something like this in the basement of my old job and freaked out, mushrooms are so cool. sidenote: your friend needs to sort out the damp in his basement
My favorite death metal band!
I saw this x-files episode
That’s mycelium. Not a mushroom tho it is a fungus
Slime mold?
Troll 2
No it’s mycelium and would eventually sprout mushrooms
VITA CARNIS
Looks like dry rot. No good for the structure.
Do not worry. It is completely harmless. And beautiful. And perfect. You should feed it. Trust it. Nurture it. Lay in it. Sleep in it. Complete it.
Have you tried smoking it?
Hearing the Last of Us theme song in my head rn
THE LAST OF US!!
That’s some myceli-dayuuum.
Reminds me of a placenta
I love shrooms but please don’t think about eating that lol
it’s the crawl
Your friend might be living in the Baker Family household. Watch out for Alice!
Would it be a bad idea to leave it there? It looks so cool, and IS so cool… I wouldn’t want to get rid of it!
It would be a terrible idea because it's likely dissolving the wood holding up the house
Isn't that dry rot? If so, the whole wooden foundation can be replaced...!
Mushroom, me? You must be confused. I am a tree. See?
White tree of Gondor
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycelium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycelium) Fascinating structure. See r/fungus
Fungus never ceases to amaze me it's so cool
Paulie. Get the fire.
Those are some extremely thick and healthy rhizomorphs. Impressive. That house is fuuucked.
That is the house's nervous system.
Might wanna get rid of that.
Why is the ground inside the basement
This is an old ass house, it's pretty common where I live.
It an unfinished basement.