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Polycephalomyces tomentosus This is a weird one... little brown balls with white spikes. I&#039;ve never seen anything like it.<br />
Update - I found it! researching something else I came across this unique little fungi on a fungi. The white spikes are  whole different organism that is colonizing the slime mold. Fall,Geotagged,Polycephalomyces tomentosus,United States Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Polycephalomyces tomentosus

This is a weird one... little brown balls with white spikes. I've never seen anything like it.
Update - I found it! researching something else I came across this unique little fungi on a fungi. The white spikes are whole different organism that is colonizing the slime mold.

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  1. That's so weird. And a few of them don't yet have the spikes. Posted 9 years ago

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Blistum tomentosum is a hyphomyceet that regularly occurs in the winter months on slime molds of the genus Trichia. This parasite looks to the naked eye as a kind of fluff that on closer inspection is made up of lots of small white spores carrying stalks with a white button at each end. Blistum tomentosum is anamorphic of Byssostylbe stilbigera and commonly occurs on slime molds for. Due to its very small size, however, reported few observations.

Similar species: Hypocreales
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Uploaded Nov 25, 2015. Captured Nov 24, 2015 13:26 in 2-104 158th Avenue Kp S, Lakebay, WA 98349, USA.
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  • 50mm