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Wolf's Milk

Lycogala epidendrum

Description:

Pink slime mold!

Habitat:

Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta Canada

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Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 9 years ago

From the photo this looks more like a slime mold called "Wolf's Milk' -check out Lycogala species to see if it looks anything like your specimen.

If they are mushrooms, we might need to see the various parts, like the cap, stalk and pore/gill surface (underside of cap).

Nice spotting !

LivesInADream
Spotted by
LivesInADream

Alberta, Canada

Spotted on Aug 30, 2014
Submitted on Oct 1, 2014

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