What the heck is this - - -

[Ron Evers]

- growing in the middle of our driveway? The brown jelly-like stuff.

1. Minolta 58/1.4 @ minimum focus distance (f8)

2. Minolta 58/1.4 + 20mm extension tube @ maximum focus distance (f8)

 

[biggoron]

the blob?

 

[biggoron]

jelly fungus?

Google

 

[SNBniko]

I think I just threw up a little.

Does it smell?

 

[480sparky68 67]

ET pooped in your drive while stopping by last night.

 

[dots]

Call in an airstrike.

 

[480sparky68 67]

Now, let's talk about the white stuff...... the stuff that looks like cocaine & meth............

 

[sm4him]

looks like primordial ooze to me...do let us know what sort of new life form comes crawling out of it...I'm just glad that stuff is nowhere NEAR where I am!

 

[mangtarn]

you should really get that checked out. ughhhh

thank you for sharing though. good photography.

 

[Infinite_Day]

Actually probably a slime mold but it's hard to tell.

 

[Derrel]

Did Mitt Romney visit your house?

 

[GeorgieGirl]

Ron, what the heck is going on??? Eeeewwwwww.

 

[dakkon76]

+1 for jelly fungus. I've seen some small spots on the ground and on some stumps while out hiking... but never one quite that big! Fungi are creepy, and awesome

 

[Ron Evers]

+1 for jelly fungus. I've seen some small spots on the ground and on some stumps while out hiking... but never one quite that big! Fungi are creepy, and awesome

I agree, Biggoron hit it. We often get an orange jelly fungus on our Junipers but I have not seen this brown/green type before.

Literature says many forms are edible, even raw, like who the heck would try.

 

[Ron Evers]

• Got this from a biologist I know.

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by Katherine Fri Oct 21, 2011 10:54 pm
It's a gelatinous lichen. I think. Either that or Guinopsis i have to look it up. I know it but I can't remember the name, but it not very common. K



by Katherine Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:40 pm
Nope its no not myxomycetes, and I'm too tired to go look it up. Slime molds are fungi, and so are lichens, except they have a symbiotic algae. In gelatinous lichens the algae is really loosely associated. It's not hugely attractive but it's not harmful. It usually broken up by removal (being careful not to leave a lot of fragments behind) then with liming, aeration, sand, grass seed, fertilizer.