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 …