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Wolf's Milk Slime

Lycogala epidendrum

Photo by Dan Doucette
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Field Notes

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:

sphagnum moss on a dead log, temperate forest

Notes:

I spotted these in Foping Reserve.

Species ID Suggestions

Wolf's milk slime; Toothpaste slime or Groening slime

lycogala epidendrum

Comments (4)

no proplem dan. I like also the new xylaria species, haven't seen the cubensis here on pn yet. thumbs up :)
very nice dan, i see you are back with many nice spottings.Will look by in some hours. :)

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