Can anyone tell me something about this…
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I think it’s talking. It just said, “Feed Me.”
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Could be a mold, fungus, slime, or smut. No question about it. Its ugly. In a few days it will probably puke out a bunch of powdery spores.
Paul
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Could be a mold, fungus, slime, or smut. No question about it. Its ugly. In a few days it will probably puke out a bunch of powdery spores.
processhead it’s certainly in the fungi family. I’ve never seen anything like it growing out of gravel in such a dry space. In the fall I get a ton of shaggy mane mushrooms popping up in the same area. I first noticed those in a yard at the other end of my alley around 2004-05. It took a while for those to migrate my way.
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Could be a mold, fungus, slime, or smut. No question about it. Its ugly. In a few days it will probably puke out a bunch of powdery spores.
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FREAK of nature in my backyard? It started out as a weird little blob coming out of the ground a couple of years ago in a corner of my yard behind my bbq’s. It soon started growing and eventually turned into a hard toadstool-y thing that holds up to a power washer without damage. It just started to grow an additional baby blob that resembles the original. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m pretty sure I posted something about this during its teenage years previously.
Joe Hell Try looking at these.
Ganoderma exists in the soil and enters tree roots through wounds in the root tissue. Wounds are most likely to occur with digging or construction in the root zone — installation of sidewalks, patios, driveways and retaining walls can cause substantial damage to tree roots.
Lawn mowers and weed trimmers that contact exposed tree roots or the base of the tree also create wounds that allow Ganoderma and other similar fungi to move into a tree.
The fruiting structures that indicate the presence of Ganoderma are typically brown to reddish brown with creamy margins. They look more like a dried pile of goop, than a standard mushroom and sometimes even look like they have been varnished. Sometimes they are yellowish or purplish.
They appear at the base of the tree near the soil line or on exposed roots but never in the high branches of a tree. One species of Ganoderma produces a shelf-fungi known as the artists’ conk because the underside can be drawn upon.
If you observe what look like Ganoderma fruiting structures on a tree in your yard, there are a few things to consider. Most important is the presence of a target — meaning something that could be damaged if the tree fell on it.
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Joe Hell Try looking at these.
Ganoderma exists in the soil and enters tree roots through wounds in the root tissue. Wounds are most likely to occur with digging or construction in the root zone — installation of sidewalks, patios, driveways and retaining walls can cause substantial damage to tree roots.
Lawn mowers and weed trimmers that contact exposed tree roots or the base of the tree also create wounds that allow Ganoderma and other similar fungi to move into a tree.
The fruiting structures that indicate the presence of Ganoderma are typically brown to reddish brown with creamy margins. They look more like a dried pile of goop, than a standard mushroom and sometimes even look like they have been varnished. Sometimes they are yellowish or purplish.
They appear at the base of the tree near the soil line or on exposed roots but never in the high branches of a tree. One species of Ganoderma produces a shelf-fungi known as the artists’ conk because the underside can be drawn upon.
If you observe what look like Ganoderma fruiting structures on a tree in your yard, there are a few things to consider. Most important is the presence of a target — meaning something that could be damaged if the tree fell on it.
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johnsbrewhouse there aren’t any notable hosts nearby but 6 or 7 years ago there was a ginormous sycamore tree approx 8-10 feet away.
Joe Hell If it had roots, they will come off the root system. I get mushrooms (fairyrings) from old buried stumps that were cut over 25 years ago. Mushrooms and fungus’s can do amazing things and live underground traveling along their hosts. Truffles are a good example of a traveling fungus that follows root system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganoderma_lucidum
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I think it’s talking. It just said, “Feed Me.”
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Make a great segment for “Will it bbq”
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Joe Hell Kill it with fire! No, seriously, I have never seen one look like this but we had a brown one in my yard when I was a kid at the base of an old stump. If there is not tree in the area then I don’t think it is harming anything but for the love of god don’t chop up your sadistic dentist and feed him to it!
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Perhaps in the spirit of new and creative food preparation, maybe its time to look at it as food, rather than “the enemy”. Surely some of us here have eaten weirder stuff than this? lol
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Joe Hell If it had roots, they will come off the root system. I get mushrooms (fairyrings) from old buried stumps that were cut over 25 years ago. Mushrooms and fungus’s can do amazing things and live underground traveling along their hosts. Truffles are a good example of a traveling fungus that follows root system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganoderma_lucidum
johnsbrewhouse that sycamore had roots substantial enough that it cracked the foundation of the house in the basement (I presume) and lifted a corner of my garage by a couple on inches. When I had work done on the backyard I had everything leveled and put down a weed barrier and gravel. Now I just deal with surface weeds which are easily uprooted by foot.
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Perhaps in the spirit of new and creative food preparation, maybe its time to look at it as food, rather than “the enemy”. Surely some of us here have eaten weirder stuff than this? lol
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