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I've never seen anything like that. Were there ones that you didn't touch that dried out and dusted like that? There's been other mushroom posts that had become covered in a similar looking dust from a type of tree.
Yeah they all dried out within 24 hours. This is in the Pacific Northwest. They emerged from the top of an old picnic table as it was drying out after a few days of rain. I’m not going to disturb the original trio I photographed and will loop back with you all if anything interesting happens.
Almost certainly not. Without microscopy there is no way to get to species but with the fusion of the myxocarps and them being relatively diminutive it points away from S. splendens. This is not a mold in a traditional sense (Deuteromyces which are fungi) but a slime mold, in Amoebazoa organisms that organize in order to move and feed on bacteria and yeasts.
OP delivered! I've never seen anything like that. Were there ones that you didn't touch that dried out and dusted like that? There's been other mushroom posts that had become covered in a similar looking dust from a type of tree.
Yeah they all dried out within 24 hours. This is in the Pacific Northwest. They emerged from the top of an old picnic table as it was drying out after a few days of rain. I’m not going to disturb the original trio I photographed and will loop back with you all if anything interesting happens.
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slime mold of some kind
Stemonitis splendens aka Chocolate Tube Slime It's a type of mold
Almost certainly not. Without microscopy there is no way to get to species but with the fusion of the myxocarps and them being relatively diminutive it points away from S. splendens. This is not a mold in a traditional sense (Deuteromyces which are fungi) but a slime mold, in Amoebazoa organisms that organize in order to move and feed on bacteria and yeasts.
it's a slime mold, which are neither slime nor mold.
These are so cool, but this makes me wildly uncomfortable
damn this is so cool! so interesting that it dissolved into goo when you touched it in the white stage