Greetings everyone.
Been busy with gardening and found that guy on the pics in our raised bed in the garden...
Strange, but I am quite sure its a sort of slime mold, right?!
When damaged it turned reddish.
I removed it and next day it came back. Then it got too dry the following weeks.
Yes, I've got these in my yard for the first time.
I call it "cheese bread", because it looks like porous bread crusted in melted cheese. It grows on top of the soil. In my yard it only grows on top of decomposing wood chips.
After a few days, or a week, the top crust dries out in the sun. Inside a bunch of brown chalky spores plume out in the wind. The spores are hydrophobic. When I spray a mature one with water, the "cheese" melts and crumbles away, but the spores inside become a dark cloud of messy smoke.
One way to get rid of it I have found is to shovel it up when it's fresh, and toss it into the compost. It doesn't have deep roots.
Oh no, looks like you have dog vomit slime mold on your hands... Better move it out of there or it will always be growing after you water the beds.
Well it nevver came back aaaaand I am a mushroom lover so I can't just kill it 😲
Slime molds are known to be very smart and intelligent in finding new pathways afair from the mushroom docs I have seen.
I have also some other species growing in the other beds, I'll take pics of them, too. Just lovely to see other shrooms growing which are not coming from my introduction. (I am spreading lots of Psilocybes (meadow and wood species) in my garden by tossing used and/or partially molded cultures.)
A good and healthy ecosystem MUST HAVE shrooms 😍
True, I read recently that there's a compound in dog vomit slime mold that kills certain cancer cells.
Not a fungus anymore, these organisms are now classified as Protists - an organism that is neither plant, animal or fungus
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