Blood milk fungus

Blood milk fungus
Blood milk fungus ( Lycogala epidendrum )
Systematics
without rank: Amoebozoa without rank: Myxogastria Order : Liceida Family : Enteridiidae Genre : Lycogala Type : Blood milk fungus
Scientific name
Lycogala epidendrum
( L. ) Fr.

The blood milk fungus ( Lycogala epidendrum ) is a protist from the class of slime molds .

description

Young spores from the “blood milk” of the fruiting body, colored with cotton blue

The fruiting body ( aethalium ) of the blood milk fungus, which is similar in shape to small dusting or bovists , is sessile, spherical or cushion-shaped with a diameter of 3 to 15 mm. He stands alone or in close groups. Its outer skin ( cortex ) is thin and slightly warty like a shell. The fruit body is initially soft and light pink, later it becomes reddish-gray, then yellow-brown to blackish. When ripe it bursts unevenly and releases the spore dust . The spherical spores are 6 to 7.5 micrometers wide, initially pink-gray, later pale ocher. Their surface is reticulated.

The pseudocapillitium consists of branched anastomos grown, long, flattened tubes that have clear transverse folds. The main branches have a diameter of 12 to 25 micrometers at the base, the secondary branches have a diameter of 6 to 12. The numerous ungrown ends are blunt or club-shaped. The plasmodium is coral red.

Occurrence

The blood milk fungus is common worldwide. It is common and grows on stumps and lying trunks from May to October.

proof

1. ↑ ^{a b} Mirko Svrcek: The great mushroom guide - The mushrooms of Central Europe , 1997, ISBN 38112-1424-1 , p. 48
2. ^ ^{A b} George Willard Martin: Fungi, Myxomycetes, Ceratiomyxales, Liceales, Trichiales, Stemonitales, Physarales In: North American Flora, Vol. 1, Part 1, New York Botanical Garden, 1949, pp. 20-21

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