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Wolf's milk slime mould

Lycogala epidendrum

Description:

The globose to subglobose or compressed fruitbodies of Lycogala epidendrum are at first pinkish-gray to bright cinnabar-red when young. At this stage the flesh is a pinkish, paste-like substance (like toothpaste?). With maturity the fruit body becomes yellow-brown or olive- brown and the spore mass becomes powdery and pinkish- gray to ochre in mass.

Habitat:

Found in a wetland .

Notes:

Not a fungus if you can believe that one.

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Brian38
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Brian38

Federal Way, Washington, USA

Spotted on May 5, 2017
Submitted on May 8, 2017

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