Coral Slime

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa – Inedible

On rotting wood. Summer, autumn, sometimes also spring.

From a shiny, icicle-shaped or white plasmodium grow vertical, straight, usually branched, shiny, translucent, white, yellowish sporangia 0.5-1 cm long and 0.5-1 mm thick. Characteristic features: one of the most beautiful slime moulds, like a delicate coral. Grows on rotting and rotten wood, rarely on rotting leaves and forest litter. Not rare.