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Wolf's Milk Mature, olive-brown aethalia with a powdery mass of lavender spores spilling out. Fall,Geotagged,Lycogala,Lycogala epidendrum,United States,Wolf's Milk,Wolf's milk,slime mold Click/tap to enlarge

Wolf's Milk

Mature, olive-brown aethalia with a powdery mass of lavender spores spilling out.

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Lycogala epidendrum is a cosmopolitan species of plasmodial slime mould which is often mistaken for a fungus. The aethalia, or fruiting bodies, occur either scattered or in groups on damp rotten wood, especially on large logs, from June to November.

Similar species: Liceales
Species identified by Christine Young
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By Christine Young

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Uploaded Feb 22, 2018. Captured Dec 1, 2017 13:54 in 5 East St, New Milford, CT 06776, USA.
  • Canon EOS 80D
  • f/5.6
  • 1/256s
  • ISO400
  • 100mm