{"id":1125,"date":"2018-07-06T11:41:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T17:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2018-07-06T11:41:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T17:41:45","slug":"red-raspberry-slime-mold-tubifera-ferruginosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"Red raspberry slime mold<\/a> <em>(Tubifera ferruginosa)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1126\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/red_raspberry_slime_mold_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1126\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1126\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/red_raspberry_slime_mold_02.jpg\" alt=\"red raspberry slime mold\" width=\"960\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/red_raspberry_slime_mold_02.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/red_raspberry_slime_mold_02-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/red_raspberry_slime_mold_02-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/red_raspberry_slime_mold_02-624x413.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Kirk Nelson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Slime mold is a term of convenience grouping together several kinds of unrelated organisms. They were formerly placed in the Fungi kingdom because they produce structures containing spores (sporangia). The modern classification has them divided among several supergroups. The taxonomy of slime molds changes frequently\u2014it is a work in progress.<\/p>\n<p>Red raspberry slime mold <em>(Tubifera ferruginosa)<\/em> is one of the most commonly encountered slime molds in woodlands. It appears from June through November as a pink to bright red, pillow-shaped, tightly-packed mass on well-rotted logs, sometimes on moss. The surface is knobby, like a raspberry. It is not edible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Slime_Molds\/red_raspberry_slime_mold.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Slime_Molds\/red_raspberry_slime_mold.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1125\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slime mold is a term of convenience grouping together several kinds of unrelated organisms. They were formerly placed in the Fungi kingdom because they produce structures containing spores (sporangia). The modern classification has them divided among several supergroups. The taxonomy of slime molds changes frequently\u2014it is a work in progress. Red raspberry slime mold (Tubifera [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452],"tags":[453,454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}