Species:
Lycogala epidendrum
- Scientific name:
- Lycogala epidendrum
- Arabic name:
- حليب الذئب
- French name:
- Lait de loup, Lycogale du bois
- English name:
- Wolf's milk, Groening's slime
- Habitat:
- On dead wood logs
- Ecological niche:
- The aethalia, or fruiting bodies, occur either scattered or in groups on damp rotten wood, especially on large logs
- Gills / pores:
- Dimensions:
- Color(s):
- These aethalia are small, pink (at first) to brown cushion-like globs at a mature age
- Texture, other traits:
- Rough, warty texture, releases a pink-grey paste like flesh when popped
- Kingdom Protists
- Phylum Myxomycota
- Class Myxomycetes
- Order Liceales
- Family Reticulariaceae
- Genus Lycogala
Fruiting period
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