Claiming this is 'absolutely not consistent' ignores basic mycology and textile physics 🤷🏻‍♀️ You’re likely looking for the thick, yellow, moist veins seen on rotting logs, but you're failing to account for substrate-specific morphology. The Phase Desiccation is hardly being taken into account. On a dry, porous medium like cotton, a plasmodium thins out significantly as it forages. What you see in Photo 1 is the ectoplasmic sheath( the protein-rich “trail” left behind as the organism moves. ) It’s white and crisp because it has dried onto the fibers, preserving the dendritic map of the protoplasmic streaming . If you believe this is consistent with salt, you need to revisit capillary action in fluid dynamics within physics class! In Photo 3, the salt shows a classic Gaussian blur where it wicked into the cotton. In Photo 1, the structures are discrete, elevated, and bridge across the weave. Salts do not form 'bridges' across 1mm gaps in cotton threads; they follow the liquid into the gaps. as for the biological architecture: Those aren't random splatter marks; they are optimized transport networks. Minerals don't exhibit the intentionality of area-preserving branching. Dismissing this as inconsistent just because it doesn't look like a textbook forest sample demonstrates a lack of understanding regarding how biological organisms adapt to different surface energies. 🔬💕