Slime Mould spend most of their lives as microscopic single cell amoeboid like Protozoans. When they coalesce and mate they form these slime moulds

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Slime Mould spend most of their lives as microscopic single cell amoeboid like Protozoans. When they coalesce and mate they form these slime moulds colonies, usually on dead wood

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