a petri dish with a net-like plasmodium of a slime mold diderma on a substrate

aberrant aggregate amoeba beautiful beauty biology blob botany cell crawl creep cultivate cultural diderma dish environment evolution forest gather grow laboratory life little mature medium microcosm microscopic mold mould move mushroom myxomycete natural nature net organism plant plasmodium protist ripe saprotroph slime small spore spread tiny tissue together unicellular vein veiny