What is this thing on my house?
Posted Jul 29, 2019, 1:06 AM UTC
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Taken early June located in the midwest.
It’s gone now, looks like it fell off at some point.
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Is it crystalline or gel-like? Also where is it being grown on?
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Accurate assessment
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Gross but kinda neat too
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It's always a slime mold. They are actually really interesting organisms.
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Slime mold : http://ezpixels.com/blog/flagstaff-part-two/
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That's a strange kind of Mold.
Hope it's not toxic, but the crystalization looks very peculiar.
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the crystalization looks very peculiar.
Those are the fruiting bodies
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slimemold
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It's a slime mold called stemonitis
https://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/club%20and%20coral/species%20pages/Stemonitis.htm
This looks like the answer. It was dark brown at some point as well. I think after it was pink.
Is it dangerous?
Pink is the immature form. It turns brown as it matures. As far as I know, it's not dangerous but isn't edible either. You could post to r/mycology and ask. Slime molds aren't a mold or fungus but a unique organisms of their own. Some even show a primitive form of intelligence and can solve mazes.
r/slimemolds
This sub is got me uncomfortable.
I heard of one that can solve Maizeses