This poetic name designates a very curious living being.
We were surprised to discover this visitor who had come to spill over a pile of crushed oak and pine branches.
A search on the net has taught us very surprising things about this traveler of the gardens, in this case that it is a being long considered as a mushroom but which is not one, it is a single-celled slime mold.
Dog vomit has long been thought of as a fungus, but it's now known that it's actually a very different organism: a single-celled slime mold that lives in a colony. Slime molds make up a phylum within the kingdom of Protists, which includes all eukaryotes that are neither plants, animals, nor fungi. English speakers call slime molds, which are much easier to spell than slime molds!
Unlike fungi, which are immobile, the cells of dog vomit aggregate to form a mobile “plasmodium”. The plasmodia then moves like an amoeba, slowly sliding overnight to another location, consuming the debris on the ground as it moves forward. So every morning dog vomit is never quite where it was the day before, nor does it have the exact same shape.
It feeds on fungi and bacteria found in heaps of plants. He also gave the idea of a film: The Blob!
It has the particularity of moving around to find its food. In accelerated it gives that:
We watched it for a few days, it's as exciting as it is sweet, but it fascinates curious children!
More details on this website : https://jardinierparesseux.com/2020/07/ ... -surprend/
Depending on the region and country, it has equally poetic names: Witch's Spit, Moon Poop, ... and the icing on the cake, it is edible and in some countries where it is eaten scrambled with eggs. Yum !
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Here, I take this message to send an invitation: I am organizing a picnic in my garden, and it will be the opportunity to discover new flavors .... based on dog vomit! Free registration.
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