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Fuligo septica
Bright yellow. Wet and mushy to the touch. A slime mold?
Dead, rotting fallen tree trunks. always shaded by overgrown vines and branches. The ground and logs are usually damp.
Slime molds aren't fungi, right?
Spotted on Apr 27, 2012
Submitted on Apr 29, 2012
5 Comments
Weird! Well, you're probably right then. I'll have to go check on this one and see what's happened to it. Thanks for all the slime mold info.
mandy here's a link to one we watched for several hours http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/869...
in pic4 there you can see some of when it went pinkish (and then nearly black)
Huh, I thought you'd made up the "dog vomit" name. What a shame that such a beautiful thing is called by a gross name.
I thought it was pretty! Thanks for the ID help. I don't think the pink-brown one is the same. There were more like that elsewhere on the logs too, and they were a very different texture and color from the yellow.
It looks like scrambled egg slime mould (dog vomit). Fuligo septica
In pic#2 the pale pink-brown patch is possibly the same but older?