New Zealand Fungi and Lichens

DSC_6710 Dog Sick slime mould (Mucilago crustacea) white plasmodium. A cosmopolitan species of slime mould found on dead wood throughout New Zealand. Slime mould plasmodia have no cell walls, and creep over surfaces engulfing bacteria, spores of fungi and plants, protozoa, and particles of nonliving organic matter. Boyle River *