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The genus may be Badhamia sp. but I cannot be sure. Doing a little research, the plasmodium of both Badhamia and Physarum polycephalum can look pretty much the same. So, to an untrained eye, such as mine, they may be easily confused. Anyway this…

I oftentimes use my Axiostar much like a CMO dissecting microscope, the scale bar was made by photographing a plastic ruler at 100x, so I cannot attest to its accuracy, however a microscope stage micrometer is in my future. Corticolous myxomycetes…

Could be P. polycephalum, not sure. However there are quite a number of cellular (social amoebae) slime mold fruit bodies, appearing as bright specks of dust, associated with it. These are Dictyostelium.

The result of Physarum plasmodium in culture, image 0045 posted 4/26/20. Prior to fruiting the plasmodium grew substantially in size from approx .5 cm to a little over 1 cm.

Moist chamber culture 4/5/20. Substrate is bark pieces from Flowering dogwood tree. These cultures have been very fruitful when it comes to producing a plasmodium.