Hey Look at My Crud...

[data farm 26]

This is an elm stump from a tree that I removed last fall. Anyone know what this is? Never seen anything like it before.

 

[data farm 26]

 

[Reach]

Fusicolla Orange Slime on Trees

Infrequently in the spring, you might see an orange, slimy substance slowly oozing from a wound on a hardwood tree. This is a fungus or a complex of...

hgic.clemson.edu

 

[Basswood]

nice one. Saw it on a live styrax awhile ago from some old pruning wounds. Makes you think before you prune!

 

[Basswood]

(Not my work)

 

[Shadowscape]

Slime mold. It is interesting stuff. Neither an animal or a plant. It is a form of amoeba. Single cell creatures. Comes in all sorts of colors. I found a patch of bright yellow stuff one time.

 

[data farm 26]

 

[KTSmith]

Thanks Reach for posting the link to "Fusicolla", I hadn't seen that term before. Sure, a mixed culture dominated by yeasts. Just as surely, there will be bacteria and a few budding ascomycetes as well. Is both epiphytic and saprophytic and doesn't harm [what's left of] the tree. Well, I suppose if the ferment really got interesting, the liquidy part might hurt the vascular cambium of thin-barked individuals, but that would be a reach.

 

[dmonn]

Thanks Reach for posting the link to "Fusicolla", I hadn't seen that term before. Sure, a mixed culture dominated by yeasts. Just as surely, there will be bacteria and a few budding ascomycetes as well. Is both epiphytic and saprophytic and doesn't harm [what's left of] the tree. Well, I suppose if the ferment really got interesting, the liquidy part might hurt the vascular cambium of thin-barked individuals, but that would be a reach.

"but that would be a reach" as a response to Reach. Was that pun intended?

 

[KTSmith]

DMonn: Unfortunately, I'm pretty lame at puns and plays on words. I'm also pretty gullible and co-dependent, so there you go. Thanks all for listening.

 

[evo]

I've never seen a hornet nest with the funnel shape....

I'm not saying it isn't... otherwise looks just like it and is identical to the one from @Shadowscape ...so I'm sure that's right. Just saying I've never seen one like it.

Agreed doesn’t quite look right to be bald face, but you won’t catch me poking it with a stick to find out

 

[Basswood]

Agreed doesn’t quite look right to be bald face, but you won’t catch me poking it with a stick to find out

I kind of regret not collecting it to be honest. It looked vacant, no guard present at the opening.

 

[Basswood]

Looks like confirmed bald face hornet nest.

 

[evo]

Looks like confirmed bald face hornet nest.

Never seen one with a spout like that, or that small. Pretty cool

 

[Basswood]

Me neither, must be a very early stage

 

[JD3000]

Classic DED streaking with some wet wood


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[JD3000]

Imazapyr or similiar damage

 

[Serf Life]

Slippery Jack?

 

[Serf Life]

Unreal pretty coral. Never seen one this color

 

[data farm 26]

these were about 40' up on an American elm. Big ones roughly the size of my hand. Can't really remember seeing any fruits this high up in a tree before but maybe it's more common in wetter environs?