Red Raspberry Slime Mould

Tubifera ferruginosa

On rotten wood, leaves, forest litter. Summer, autumn.

Plasmodium whitish, yellowish, soon becoming dark pink, reddish-pink. Sporangia cylindrical, cigar-shaped, 3–5 mm long, tightly packed together, shiny, reddish-brown, purplish-brown, yellowish-brown, growing on a well-developed hypothallus up to 10-15 cm across. Characteristic features: sporangia cigar-shaped, red. Grows in summer and autumn on rotten wood and leaves.