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I'm not an expert but it's not harmful as far as I know. I think most of them are edible actually. Lots of articles mention getting rid of stuff like fungi, slime molds, slime flux, etc (often with misinformation) because that's the only interest many people have in this stuff.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I'm not an expert but it's not harmful as far as I know. I think most of them are edible actually. Lots of articles mention getting rid of stuff like fungi, slime molds, slime flux, etc (often with misinformation) because that's the only interest many people have in this stuff.
This is not a slime mold (a single large gelotinous amoeba cell): it's slime flux, a colony of bacteria & yeasts & other microbes feeding on oozing sap from the tree. Slime flux nearly always hosts Prototheca, a unicellular plant which gave up photosynthesis to eat garbage & sometimes brains
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This is not a slime mold (a single large gelotinous amoeba cell): it's slime flux, a colony of bacteria & yeasts & other microbes feeding on oozing sap from the tree. Slime flux nearly always hosts Prototheca, a unicellular plant which gave up photosynthesis to eat garbage & sometimes brains
Nostoc, a cyanobacteria
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Nostoc, a cyanobacteria
Nvm, looking at it some more it must be Nostoc
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Nvm, looking at it some more it must be Nostoc
I think you are probably right but I'm not 100% certain because I haven't seen one like this before
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I think you are probably right but I'm not 100% certain because I haven't seen one like this before
I think if this is a slime mold it's not doing too well. If you check on it a day later it will probably be more obvious what it is. Did you poke it
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I think if this is a slime mold it's not doing too well. If you check on it a day later it will probably be more obvious what it is. Did you poke it
Too immature to be certain but maybe Physarum leucophaeum (if it indeed exists as a separate species)
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Too immature to be certain but maybe Physarum leucophaeum (if it indeed exists as a separate species)
You can see the tiny bones inside through the skin
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
You can see the tiny bones inside through the skin
The spores never formed?
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The spores never formed?
They look normal. They just rot after the spores form, they don't last long.
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
They look normal. They just rot after the spores form, they don't last long.
I've never heard of that fungus before, thanks! These look very regular in shape for a fungus, though, and they strikingly resemble immature Trichia varia. Are you sure this photo is of a fungus?
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I've never heard of that fungus before, thanks! These look very regular in shape for a fungus, though, and they strikingly resemble immature Trichia varia. Are you sure this photo is of a fungus?
Hello, the third photo is of a fungus and not a slime mold. I am a regular slime guy & not a regular fungi, but I believe it is a Sparassis
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November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Hello, the third photo is of a fungus and not a slime mold. I am a regular slime guy & not a regular fungi, but I believe it is a Sparassis
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Fuligo septica can vary quite a bit in color, actually, although these may be a species complex or even a polyphyletic group
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Fuligo septica can vary quite a bit in color, actually, although these may be a species complex or even a polyphyletic group
Wonderful photos. Look at those stalks
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Wonderful photos. Look at those stalks
Also here is a time lapse of Stemonaria longa from instagram.com/yeweijun98
there is a lovely beetle toward the end
there is a lovely beetle toward the end
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Also here is a time lapse of Stemonaria longa from instagram.com/yeweijun98
there is a lovely beetle toward the end
there is a lovely beetle toward the end
here are the most well documented fungivores
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
here are the most well documented fungivores
I couldn't find an ID but I can confirm it's not a slime mold, which would look wetter, flatter, & veinier or be small dangly fruit bodies. Only a handful of slime molds will eat live macro fungi, which is well documented only in Physarum polycephalum, Badhamia utricularis, & Stemonaria longa
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I couldn't find an ID but I can confirm it's not a slime mold, which would look wetter, flatter, & veinier or be small dangly fruit bodies. Only a handful of slime molds will eat live macro fungi, which is well documented only in Physarum polycephalum, Badhamia utricularis, & Stemonaria longa
a common misidentification in this article
What you got there is a dog SICK slime mold (Didymium spongiosum). Unlike its close relative the dog VOMIT slime mold (Fuligo septica) it prefers grass to dead wood & deposits calcite on its cortex rather than piles of microscopic chalk balls. Also the surface looks like weird crumpled grocery bags
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
a common misidentification in this article
These are still immature. When Ceratiomyxa is mature, it becomes frosty looking from the spores
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
These are still immature. When Ceratiomyxa is mature, it becomes frosty looking from the spores
Ceratiomyxa & Didymium
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Ceratiomyxa & Didymium
If the "heads" are fuzzy & white it is likely fungal mold
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If the "heads" are fuzzy & white it is likely fungal mold
I think this is fungal mold, not a slime mold
November 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I think this is fungal mold, not a slime mold
Do you have closer photos
November 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Do you have closer photos