Long ago, there lived a slime mold named Stemonitis Fusca who lived in Scotland. Stemonitis was new to his home in the Caledonian Forest. He found a nice, cozy spot in a deciduous tree’s trunk. Slime molds usually live on forest floors or tree trunks just like Stemonitis. Anyways, when our furry slime mold friend moved into his new tree trunk home he was in his haploid state of the slime mold cycle. The haploid state is the first stage of the life cycle and it is the name for many unicellular amoebas that are working together, so Stemonitis was fairly young yet! While living in his trunk, he discovered that it was rotting and this meant that there was tasty bacteria for him to eat. Slime molds love to feast on bacteria and eating this bacteria allowed Stemonitis to grow from five grams to fifteen grams covering half of a square meter. As time grew on, so did Stemonitis until he didn’t fit in his tree trunk anymore. He decided to split in two and move to a different part of the Caledonian forest. …show more content…
He found that there were rotting animals on forest floor that he could digest and return some nutrients to the soil. Over time, the soil became more fertile allowing other plants to grow nearby Stemonitis. Stemonitis began growing exponentially covering a fair amount of the forest floor due to the abundance of food that he devoured. Other plants were thankful for Stemonitis and they were producing a large amounts of oxygen due to how well they were thriving. Slime molds like Stemonitis don’t necessarily have a limiting factor due to the fact that the slime mold doesn’t really have a natural predator and that slime mold doesn’t really affect anything accept for dead