Found this Sci Fi looking beast in my back yard today!

[Nytr013]

I looked it up. It's slime mold. Pretty harmless. Just a really cool thing to wake up to this morning. Some pics with and without flash.

 

[Beverly]

I think there is a fungus amongus. Yes, bright yellow Slime Mold.

 

[Greenhorn]

"The Fungous Amoungus" was a phase my mom liked to use when I was young.

 

[Nytr013]

When I first saw it this morning, I thought somebody let some of that spray foam go.

 

[Beth_B]

Very cool! I had something similar in my yard last year. Fungus among us.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

humongous fungus among us.

 

[Beverly]

"The Fungous Amoungus" was a phase my mom liked to use when I was young.

Were you a kid in 1958? Terry Noland from Abeline, TX wrote and recorded this song in 1958. I don't know if he was the origin of that phrase. Could have been a taunt used by children before that:

 

[Tmheldt78]

When I first saw it this morning, I thought somebody let some of that spray foam go.

I started seeing that in my yard last year, and the first thing I thought was that someone had sprayed some kind of hardening foam too
Figured out it was some kind of fungus, and thanks to this forum, I know now its called slime mold. Thanks!

 

[Greenhorn]

I was not too much later and it's something she would have latched on to. She was a fairly young women (and mom) in 1958.

 

[Beth_B]

Were you a kid in 1958? Terry Noland from Abeline, TX wrote and recorded this song in 1958. I don't know if he was the origin of that phrase. Could have been a taunt used by children before that:

That's great! I was born in 1958