I will be staying in a house with a back yard and a garden, one that includes vegetables! The people who usually live there are plant lovers. The woman works on education policy, which is very interesting stuff, and related to my own thesis, and the man works on fungi, myxomycetes in fact. Myxomycetes are extremely interesting in their own right. If you don’t know anything about them, you should. Go now and find out:
http://www.myxoweb.com/
They are definitely some of the most interesting creatures on the planet. Personally, I like the way they defy categorization by us category-loving humans.
I mean, who knew those candy-coated licorices grew on miniature trees?
or that aliens walk among us? Well, slither, really.For more pictures of the fantastic world of slime molds, go to: http://www.plant.uga.edu/mycology-herbarium/myxogal.htm
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