You’ll probably have better luck peeling back the bark of rotting logs and searching for a slime mold in its plasmodium stage and just collecting some plasmodium. I’ve read that captive Physarum and Fuligo plasmodia can be kept for years and grown to various sizes depending on how much food and space you give them.
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