Re: weird cream stuff
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- Subject: Re: weird cream stuff
- From: B* S* <b*@tiger.hsc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:27:09 -0600 (MDT)
I've also seen this stuff. It appears in the fall in shrub beds on campus
that have been heavily mulched with wood chips. We've identified it as a
slime mold rather than a fungus (for those who care, slime molds are
single-celled creatures which temporarily band together in billions for
reproductive purposes--some look like fungi but they are quite unrelated).
Later it dries up and scatters countless spores. So far as I know, it is
harmless to plants, feeding mostly on bacteria and like things in the soil.
Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<bills@tiger.hsc.edu>
