I noticed this while adding to the compost pile, yesterday.
YUCK what is it?
It's against an old tree stump where only the dog goes.
I had no idea what it was until I saw it on the monitor.
Any guesses?
Andy P
Something like what the spittle bug does?? A bug responsible? Or scrambled eggs that you threw out!
It could just be a natural fungus breaking down the tree trunk/branch that is there. Not sure...I'll be opening this one up for discussion at the garden helpline sometime...lol.
I don't think so, though I can certainly be wrong. Appears to be done 'on' the tree from a external source.
Just gross looking is all I have to say - no ideas here sorry.
AAARRRGGHHHH!
Invasion of the body snatchers!
Where's pirl?! She knows all about this compost stuff!!
I second the motion for the body snatchers!
Andy, if you took it and put it in a small bowl, swirled it around a bit, you could serve it as sorbet.
Oh yuck, I just grossed myself out!
A question though.. Is this where the dog goes or where the dog travels?
Looks like a fungi the snails got to.
It's really gross.
This message was edited Jul 5, 2008 6:36 AM
Good Morning:
I have several types of compost piles working and the ones that contain high amounts of wood chip produce some weird looking things. Don't remember anything exactly like that but some are close.
If you walk threw the woods after during or right after wet weather like we are having now you will see lots of strange looking things emerging from decaying matter.
John
This message was edited Jul 5, 2008 6:41 AM
Sort of like me getting out of bed in the morning.
LOLOL!
Nancy
Looks like what is left from a pumpkin from last fall.
One Spring, a few years ago Mom & I discovered a strange "thing" in the livingroom. It was grey, kinda looked like a rock. We poked it with a stick & found it was soft.
YIKES! We both realized it was a pumpkin from the previous fall!
ROFL!
Says a lot about our housekeeping habits!
:oP
Could it be some type of slime mold?
This question is answered properly. It is a fungi growth. It is closely related to the fungi in the wine making process called "mother". It is nature attempting to consume rotting material underground. This can be real scary when beetle larva attack and kill along with disease in pumpkin, squash, cukes and melons roots. It can actually build up pressure and snort at you while pushing slime and goo to the surface of your gardens. It is nature cleaning herself up.
Wonder if the creators of Ghost Busters studied this fungiies habits.
I think ge1836 has it right. I can't say for sure, only guessing.
We have tons of slugs and snails.
Andy P
gabagoo, the picture I've got in my minds eye of the two of you cautiously approaching the alien in the living room with a stick, fully expecting it to reach up and grab one of you by the throat is so funny. Mind you, I think you've turned me off pumpkin for life.
I think the writers of Ghostbusters were still in the 'college dorm room' state of mind. All kinds of freak fungi there!
You are absolutly right.
UGGGH
While the main part certainly looks like funky fungi I have seen in the woods, the 'goo' at the edges is kind of weird. I forwarded the photo to a friend who is a fungus expert.
Here's one I saw while hiking a few years back. Dig in!
Had to send him a second photo. Had only sent the top one. This gets yummier - he said the slime around the edges is from the slugs who were dining on it!
This is getting really gross.
The last stuff looked like Chicken Fat
Brain matter.
gaaaaaaaaag
My friend says he cannot ID which one from the photos, but he said it is a defunct mushroom. He is a mycologist.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW!
Sorry. I had to say it.
Remember "The Blob" with Steve McQueen in the 50's? This blob looks like it's eaten sunnyside up eggs ;)
Cissy
Remember the movie, The Blob?
Hee hee - funny, sis!
victor! great blob minds think alike LOL
cis
Lots of slugs around here.
