Was on the road earlier this week and missed my regular post. Thought I would slide in here with a Friday puzzler. This one is from my very own yard last week. Know what it is?
Was on the road earlier this week and missed my regular post. Thought I would slide in here with a Friday puzzler. This one is from my very own yard last week. Know what it is?
I know, I know! But I won’t spoil it. I do love the common name for it, though.
I’m thinking it’s a slime mold?
Oooh. I’m thinking dog vomit slime mold. But I didn’t know you could spoil that!
We call it Dog Vomit Slime Mold here in the Midwest as well. Although, it usually has a more vibrany yellow color to it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuligo_septica
Yummy. As a kid I always wondered what those things were that you could kick, poke, or squirt water at and get a brownish cloud to come out of it.
We call it Arf Barf Fungus.
Phew! I’ve been seeing this all summer – glad to see it’s harmless.
If I wasn’t a horticulturist I’d definitely be a mycologist. Fungi are such intriguing organisms. I’ve gathered quite the collection of photos of them in the last few years, half of which I have no idea what exactly they are.
I love how many people responded to this question! Always good for a laugh in the garden – dog vomit slime mold. I love all the fungi I find in the garden: Dead man’s fingers (Xylaria), bird’s nest fungus
Dog vomit slime mold was the topic of an article in our local paper. Aren’t they plasmodia?
http://www.ourmidland.com/accent/article_ffa5f0a8-0958-5f12-9519-2721a819ff94.html
In one part of their life cycle they are single celled, widely scattered organisms. Some unknown signal brings hundreds together for the pictured form of the life cycle that, funguslike, forms spores. Aliens truly live among us.