What are this???
This fungus suddenly appears during the hot, humid days of midsummer. It is fleshy as a toadstool, but evidently, it emerges in perhaps some sort of liquid form before solidifying around the plant stems.
It has already killed two rosebushes and a pineapple sage. My son digs it out with its soil, and then we drench the ground alternating between Neem oil and milk products. Milk products are excellent for killing powdery mildew. The lactobacillus is a powerful antifungal.
Still, this is our second year experiencing this hideous bloom, and there were more fruiting bodies than last summer!
I have perused many fungi identification sites to no avail. Help!
Love,cat
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Interesting looking fungi, reminds me of bread rising, also some
sci fi movies, like the blob lol. Not nice it's killing other plants!
I've never seen anything like that one before! Kinda looks like
that spray foam too! :-)
Once again, you have written the thoughts inside my head.
The Blob furreals!!!
And yes, so very much like spray foam. If it were "bubbly" it would fit the description of Slime Mold, which has often been described just as you typed!
But slime molds are not harmful, are beneficial in fact. This thing is weird!
Xoxo
It may be Laetiporus versisporus. The same creatures grow in my neighborhood every summer. Creepy…🤣🤣
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Hmmm could be. It does have shelf fungus qualities although I only find it growing on the ground. And the way it surrounds the twigs and stems is so bizarre. I edited my post to add a photo my son gave me of one he removed last year, could help id.
Your creatures are growing on the ground ... Well, that may not be the one I thought🤔
Laetiporus versisporus grew on a tree trunk and was initially white but gradually yellowing, dark brown and withered in a few days. Here is my post link last year.
https://steemit.com/japanese/@ultraseven/the-horrible-mushroom#@ultraseven/re-koto-art-re-ultraseven-the-horrible-mushroom-20180710t020014203z
I hope you can identify what that creature is !!
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Thanks for your insight though! I learned a lot about bracket fungi following what you said. I will definitely update if the mystery is solved. I may need to take a sample to my local Cooperative Extension
Looks like slime mold. A fasinating organism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuligo_septica