# Unknown moss? **URL:** \ **Category:** Image Critiques\ **Tags:** plant-life\ **Created:** [March 7, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/unknown-moss/33921 "2023-03-07T13:47:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Kris\_Smith](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/kris_smith/32/59826_2.png) [@Kris\_Smith](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Kris_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/unknown-moss/33921/4 "2023-03-07T14:18:22Z")
I’ve just begun to see and identify slime molds in the field. Most of the fruiting bodies are not anywhere this large and need a hand lens to be seen. This one is also called dog vomit slime mold because when the plasmodium breaks down it gets brown and goopy. Ugh. But they’re really interesting organisms - animals that reproduce with spores like mosses, ferns and mushrooms. Here is a link to some I found in my yard last year - > [@Lycogala epidendrum](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/lycogala-epidendrum/31182): > > aka Wolf’s Milk slime mold that I found in the yard - it really is this bright, orangey-pink. Slime molds are single-cell organisms that mostly live solitary lives. When conditions are right they congregate together in the millions and form these fruiting bodies on rotting wood. Like the fruiting bodies of fungi, these are for spore dispersal, starting as bright pink and turning gray as they mature. The spores inside are in a gluey mass and so sometimes these are called T… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/unknown-moss/33921)._