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Push Pin Slime Mold

Hemitrichia calyculata

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 39, February 29, March 45, April 71, May 102, June 112, July 119, August 103, September 75, October 56, November 31, December 24.
United States2,178
Alaska806
West Virginia232
Canada215
Virginia205
Ontario131
North Carolina127
Tennessee120
New York82
Pennsylvania76

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Human edibleListed as edible by a harvested source. This is a research trait, not foraging advice.FungiTastic metadata

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

Kingdomprotozoans · Protozoa
Phylumslime molds · Mycetozoa
Classtrue slime molds · Myxomycetes
OrderTrichiales
FamilyHemitrichiaceae
GenusHemitrichia

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Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Push Pin Slime Mold with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.