New Zealand Fungi

DSC_6710 Pink Stemonitis mould (Stemonitis fusca) a cosmopolitan species of slime mould found on dead wood throughout New Zealand. The plasmodium is white, however when it fruits the sporangia are pink (hence the common name). 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 *