What are this???
This fungus suddenly appears during the hot, humid days of midsummer. It is fleshy as a toadstool, but evidently, it emerges in perhaps some sort of liquid form before solidifying around the plant stems.
It has already killed two rosebushes and a pineapple sage. My son digs it out with its soil, and then we drench the ground alternating between Neem oil and milk products. Milk products are excellent for killing powdery mildew. The lactobacillus is a powerful antifungal.
Still, this is our second year experiencing this hideous bloom, and there were more fruiting bodies than last summer!
I have perused many fungi identification sites to no avail. Help!
Love,cat
