Continuing from my previous post, you can imagine that all my free time is spent trying to do as much with the slime mold. By now I am quite certain that this is some kind of Fulgio species (perhaps Fulgio septica). However,one needs to really look for several traits before deciding the species, and so…
Tag: Slime mold
Exploring a Slime Mold-1: Detection, isolation and culturing
Slime molds have fascinated me from childhood. I read about them in a library book and as an undergrad tried to culture them with little success (all I got were tracks of gnats). The disappointment lasted many decades. A couple of years ago I got a sample of a slime mold from a friends’ porch,…
Slime mold
I put a bit of slime mold under my foldscope, but unfortunately it had dried out so this isn’t terribly insightful. I tried rehydrating them for 70 min and tried again, but the results weren’t much different.