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Originally Posted by pstinard  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. |
LOL...leave it to the genetics guy to feel sorry for a fungus!
