Now for a slimy #fungifriday
This bright yellow stuff is called dog vomit slime mold. I guess it sort of looks like dog vomit?
The Latin name is Fuligo septica.
I wish I had my macro camera lens with me at the time. If so you would be able to see the tiny little bulbs this much is composed of.
The hot humid part of summer brings this stuff out at night.
Then by the end of the day it has grown into a large pile and dehydrated into the more pinkish form on the tree trunk.
Sometimes it will hit something like concrete where it can't get nutrients to grow more. Here it ended up creating a veiny lung like structure and dried as a thin film.
Now this is the form that looks more like dog vomit. Once it has puffed up and dried out it is all over the place. I suspect the spores get spread as dust then they reactivate with heat and humidity at night. It would be interesting to take a timelapse of this as it seems to grow really fast. It is not poisonous but gardeners hate it for its ugly look. There has been some scientific research on it and they have found it has anticancer and tumor compounds in it. The only problem would be figuring out how to extract those compounds for medical use, fire up the smoothie machine lol.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)