Article and images by Sarah Lloyd OAM Tasmaniomyxa umbilicata was one of the first slime moulds I ever misidentified! To my inexperienced eye it looked like a Lamproderma, and even northern hemisphere experts who saw the fruiting bodies didn’t think otherw...

We are delighted to announce that Sarah Lloyd OAM will be delivering our first webinar of the year. Sarah is the foremost expert on slime moulds in Australia, with publications including Where the Slime Mould Creeps and Myxomycetes at Black Sugarloaf. Webinars...

Slime moulds have baffled naturalists and scientists for centuries. In about 1750 when Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus was devising his system of classification, he decided there were two kingdoms: plants and animals. Fungi (including slime moulds that were t...