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Wolf's Milk Slime

Lycogala epidendrum

Photo by Carolina
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Field Notes

Description:

It is a cosmopolitan species of plasmodial slime mould which is often mistaken for a fungus. The compressed fruitbodies of Lycogala epidendrum are at first pinkish-gray
to bright cinnabar-red when young. They are inedible.

Habitat:

Found in a unknown tree in the zoo.

Notes:

They are inedible.

Reference Links:

Lycogala epidendrum, Lycogala epidendrum

Species ID Suggestions

Wolf's milk slime or Groening slime - mold

lycogala epidendrum

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AlexKonig
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Comments (3)
Carolina
Thank you very much, Alex! This is my first identified fungi spotting :)
AlexKonig
would you like to add this nice specimen of a slime mold/myxomycete ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold ) to the mission : Slime Moulds of the World ( http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8322190 )

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Slime Moulds of the World

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PublishedFebruary 13, 2012

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