Cryptic Wonders: enchanting slime moulds and other hidden gems

In 2010 I started photographing and collecting slime moulds (myxomycetes) in the tall wet eucalypt forest that surrounds my home at Black Sugarloaf, Birralee in Northern Tasmania. I knew virtually nothing about them and never imagined that I would still be searching for them all these years later, let alone finding numerous 'new' species, and …

Lycogala non-epidendrum

In 2014 I published the first edition of my book 'Where the slime mold creeps: the fascinating world of myxomycetes' in which I included the following quotation: "A similar complex of microspecies is found in Lycogala epidendrum and the closely-related L. exiguum. Recently, with L. terrestris ... and L. confusum ... two of these infraspecific …