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Cottage_Rose Cedar Springs, MI(Zone 5b) Jul 23, 2004

Please excuse the blurry photos but I didn't want to re-take them. I got a new load of wood chips this year to mulch my flower beds with. Something unusual has been growing in the wood chips only. We have had alot of rain this year and maybe this has had something to do with this. I assume this is some type of fungus although I have never seen anything like this in the 25 years I have been gardening.
It crops up quickly and is yellowish colored as seen in the first 2 photos. Then by the next day it smooths out, turns a tan color and shrinks (in third photo). If you spray it with water from the hose a big puff of black cloud/spores? comes out of it.
Whatever it is I don't like it!
Does anybody know what this is and how I can kill it?

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Cottage_Rose Cedar Springs, MI(Zone 5b) Jul 23, 2004

Day 1

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Cottage_Rose Cedar Springs, MI(Zone 5b) Jul 23, 2004

Day 2

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Dravencat Edgewater, MD(Zone 7a) Jul 23, 2004

I had some of that growing on my mulch too, wierd stuff. Hope someone can say what it is. Mine disapeared after a while without me having to do anything.

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Jul 24, 2004

This is not a fungus, but a Slime Mould. They are now placed in a completely separate Kingdom from Fungi. I can't get any further than that with its identity.

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Cottage_Rose Cedar Springs, MI(Zone 5b) Jul 24, 2004

Thnans kennedyh! You are right! It is slime mold.
I did a google search and this is what I found:
www.ppdl.purdue.edu/ ppdl/weeklypics/Weekly_Pi...

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Cottage_Rose Cedar Springs, MI(Zone 5b) Jul 24, 2004

Opps that link didn't take you to the right page. When you get there do a search for "Slime Mold" on the upper left side of the page.

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Jul 26, 2004

Here are a few slime mould pictures I have taken. The first was in British Columbia in Canada:

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Jul 26, 2004

Then I found this one in my local Morwell National Park here in Australia:

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Jul 26, 2004

And finally, one I found recently on Mt Erica just north of here. This one is particularly beautiful:

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Cottage_Rose Cedar Springs, MI(Zone 5b) Jul 26, 2004

No offence but I think it looks like a pile of dog vomit! ;)

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Dravencat Edgewater, MD(Zone 7a) Jul 26, 2004

LOL CR thats exactly what I thought when I first saw it in my flower bed.

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balvenie Marysville, WA(Zone 7a) Jul 27, 2004

Wouldn't a spray of clorox solution do it in ?

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