12/Oct/24, 1:25 PM
Soodla jõgi, Harjumaa, Estonia
Pine-spruce-birch-juniper wooded heath, on dry conifer stump
59°23'11.1"N 25°23'38.1"E
🔆 Occasional sun, partly cloudy, open spot
Original Instagram postLycogala epidendrum
wolf's milk
- Scientific identification
- Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829
- Family
- Tubiferaceae
- Class
- Myxogastria
- Genus
- Lycogala
Names across languages
- English: wolf's milk
- German: Blutmilchpilz
- Finnish: Sudenmaito
- Estonian: Harilik hundipiim
- Russian: Ликогала древесинная
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2024-10-12.
Plasmodium phase
The active, feeding phase consists of a gelatinous, amorphous mass that is translucent white to pale pink, moving slowly across decaying wood and consuming microorganisms
Fruiting bodies
Initially spherical to cushion-shaped, bright pink or salmon, turning gray, reddish-brown, or black as they mature, surface smooth to slightly roughened, eventually breaking open to release spores
Description
Spore mass powdery and pinkish-gray to dark gray when mature.
Ecology
Saprobic, on decaying wood, bark, stumps in forests and woodlands, clusters or scattered groups, summer and autumn in moist, shaded areas
Edibility
Inedible.
Fruit body
Fruiting body 2–15 mm in diameter, with the surface often slightly wrinkled or cracked as it ages
Odour
Odour indistinct
Microscopy
Subglobose to slightly elongated, covered in fine warts, 6–9 µm, spore mass dispersed in a capillitium network
Overview
Brightly colored slime mold in its early stages
Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 3(1): 80
Field encounters
Source hashtags
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