Identification: My orange buddy is back

This blob grows back each year, and is getting bigger. It starts out in late sept. or early oct. and is full size in about 10 days. it stays for 6 or 7 months. It is located in the pacific northwest, specifically southern oregon. Anyone know him/her?

 

Really small images. Can you post larger ones?

 

Many fungi that grow on trees like that are an indication of internal decay. do you know what kind of tree it is/was? that may help. Fromthe pic size I dont recognize it.

 

That is from the Kindom Protista ... A slime mold, although I'm not sure of genus/species.

 

orange buddy

I believe it's in an oak, it looks like it's healthy.

 

orange buddy

here's a better image

 

Re: orange buddy

I still say slime mold. If you poke it (with a stick) and a liquid oozes out, then you know have a slime mold.

 

>>If you poke it (with a stick)
Tried and true scientific method :)

 

I poked my orange buddy

It isn't a slime mold! I used a stick to poke the orange fuzzy and the stick came out clean, and no goop came out. The fur slash fleshy fuzz is alot more intresting than i thought. The strands are about an inch long, fleshy, not slimy at all. The pictures i posted in my earlier thread were from last year, it has grown considerably. I will take another picture and try to show the fur better. This orange buddy is quite interesting. i was surprized to find the stick so clean, and i sort of felt bad for poking it. any idea on what it might be?

 

Let's see the new photos. Slime molds aren't necessarily slimy at all stages of their life.

 

Very interesting, hopefully we'll be able to get to the bottom of this.

 

It could be something in the Phyllum Acrasiomycota, the cellular slime molds, as opposed to the priomoridial slime molds (Phyllum Myxomycota).

Species in each of these Phylla have Mobile Feeding Stages (when you can poke them with a stick and they ooze) and a Stationary Reproductive Stage (when they are harder).

 

more on my orange buddy

Thanks for all your replys by the way. here are the last photos of it. I'll poke it again to see if it oozes, when do you suppose is the right time? It sure doesn't seem like it'll ooze, but should i stand back? will it ooze alot? Thanx)

 

Don't hurt it. The furry little creature is kinda cute.

Your's is not what i expected. I get a bright orange mold/fungus, usually on my mulch, but it looks different then your pic.

 

does it have teeth on the underside? these last pictures look like it might have this characteristic ...

 

:) I don't think it has teeth, not unless it keeps them hidden under the fur type shroom flesh.

 

This is what i mean -- http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/okwild/misc/spontoot.html

This is a good example of a fungus that has teeth, although I know it is of course not your species. lots of fungi have teeth like this, especially ones that grow on trees.

 

Wow, teeth indeed, trippy looking one there.

 

here; this webs site has a siple key id to follow but i dont think yours is in here still it could lead to at least get closer of finding out its order........have some fun...

http://virtualmycota.landcareresearch.co.nz/webforms/vM_StaticGroups.aspx

by the way i think is a basidiomycete..... >.< .....

if some one else knows its name then you can find the rest of its hierarchy on this other website....

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html/


have fun!!!

 

Possibly a fruit body belonging to the form genus Ptychogaster ("Fungi imperfecti") is concerned. In a few polypore species of the genus Oligoporus (aka Tyromyces aka Postia) (Basidiomycetes), the mycelium living in the wood at times fails to produce normal fertile fruit bodies with basidia and basidiospores. Instead the fruit body is either composed of hyphae throughout or it produces asexual spores, or conidia/chlamydospores which appear as internal brownish powdery mass.

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