A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Stemonitis sp.
Some kind of mold about 15mm in height. The third photo shows the spores being disbursed in wind.
Found on a piece of dead wood after rains.
Spotted on Jul 4, 2015
Submitted on Jul 4, 2015
3 Comments
Thank you Hannah and Pucak for the ID help.
These are the fruiting bodies of a chocolate tube slime mold, Stemonitis sp. The 'powdery' material is the spores. When they have been released the network structure that held them is left - the feathery structures.
I wonder if it could be a slime mold... I think their fruiting bodies sometimes look like that.