this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2023
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Xylaria hypoxylon and some organe slime mold?

Found in western Germany.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Very cool photos! No ID from me but looks like a neat little world there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The first picture had me think, that the orange stuff is a slime mold and the grey-blueish growth its fruit body. The second picture, where nothing resembling a slime mold is visible, makes me think, that those grey-blueish fruit bodies belong to something from the genus Clavulina. More specifically some kind of club fungus (not a coral, which are in the same genus).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm I don't know.. I do think they look more like xylaria

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks alot like dead mans finger aka Xylaria polymorpha just guessing tho! 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure the fingery stuff is Xylaria hypoxylon - candlesnuff fungus (dead man's fingers is usually chonkier / more rounded at the end and darker colour). I don't think the orange stuff is slime mould - looks like slime flux or something fungal to me.