Hi, my name is Jonah, I'm 16 years old and live in Belgium. I have always been fascinated by tropical animals, and of course mostly by tropical frogs such as dendrobatidea. I was looking at your web site, which I do every week, in search of some new things. Now, I saw the question you were asking about this kind of "plant".
I saw it as a challenge and of course I could really need the misting system as well. I immediately started to search the web for this strange-structured plant like organism. Sadly enough I'm not the first person who reported this, but whatever, I'm going to report anyway.
After a long period of comparing images and data I found I was quit sure that this organism wasn't a plant at all. It's a type of mold, known in common language as slime mold ( Myxomycota ). The yellow structures, which might look like a tree, are called plasmodium. As it grows larger you can clearly see the network of plasmodium.
This mold type feeds on small bacteria that are captured by the slimy structure. Once captured the mold will start surrounding the bacteria with pseudopodia of the myxamoeba. Once the food has been engulfed in this matter, it is surrounded by a membrane or food vacuole where hydrolytic enzymes are secreted that will digest the food.
