🦠: Tubifera ferruginosa
📍: Alley Pond Park

This immature Tubifera ferruginosa is strikingly easy to spot in the field. In this stage, it certainly lives up to its colloquial name: Raspberry Slime Mold
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My neighbor has an old and crumbling stump amidst her native plant garden, and we found a real treat upon it when we were getting ready to put her new plants in; RED RASPBERRY SLIME MOLD!!!!! 😍

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