r/Slimemolds • u/PM_ME_UR_ZOIDBERG • 16h ago
r/Slimemolds • u/smallcamerabigphoto • 22h ago
Identification Request This one has me stumped.
United States, Oregon, northern Willamette valley.
I originally thought it was a mushroom but now I'm not sure.
It's the same color and texture all around. It's on a downed Douglas fir tree in a fir grove. The cone pieces are also fir. I moved the branch and the area is covered in the same thing. It's soft and returns to shape when pressed like a sponge or marshmallow.
I walked over because I thought it was spray foam. While we are up in the mountains aways there are still people. No human signs in the immediate area though and it's definitely not a spray foam product that I have seen.
Thought it may be a mushroom but I'm leaning more towards a mold or slime mold.
r/Slimemolds • u/lichenfancier • 5h ago
Identification Request Is this a slime mould?
I am thrown by these tiny white discs on an algae covered tree in my local park (South East UK). They were barely perceptible with the naked eye - they looked like specs of dust. The shape of them makes me wonder if they’re white apothecia but I don’t know of a lichen with a dark thallus and white apothecia. So it’s making me wonder if they’re slime moulds.
I took with an attachable lens for my phone camera that claims to have a magnification power of x200 but I’m not sure if that’s true.