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Wolf's milk slime mold

Lycogala epidendrum

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Description:

Small, soft, squishy globes of pink on the end of a rotting conifer stump. Plasmodial slime mold often found on damp, rotting wood.

Habitat:

Conifer forest surrounding montane lake in the Wind River mountain range.

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Lycogala epidendrum

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wolf's milk

Lycogala epidendrum

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PublishedNovember 1, 2011

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