Mushrooms and fungi come in all shapes and sizes. I saw a slime mold in my back yard this morning for the first time--gross!!! They are blob-shaped, with tentacle-like projections coming off them flat with the ground. And they can move (their cytoplasm pulses like blood)--very very slowly, but they move. They remind me of the 1950's movie The Blob. I couldn't bring myself to kill it because it's a unique and unusual organism, so I buried it with a shovel. |