It looks like something from an Alien movie- I was completely grossed out. Jordan and I removed it and then a few weeks later we start dealing with this fungus that looks like yellow curdled mustard (I know, this post is not for the faint of heart) and then turns to a more solid, pizza-dough looking substance, like this:
...and then finally turns black and hardens and almost blends in with the mulch. I did some research and found out it's a type of fungus known as slime mold. Most of the time it's brought in with your mulch, which makes sense because we had just re-mulched about a week before I saw the first funky one! The particular one we are dealing with is nicknamed Dog Vomit fungus.
Isn't that horrible?
It's the weirdest stuff and SO hard to get rid of. I clean up like 3 patches and then the next day it's appeared in two more, completely different places! The good news is that it's not harmful to plants, animlas or people....and it certainly hasn't harmed any of my plants despite growing on the undersides of some of them.
It's just weird and disgusting!! Unfortunately, there's not much you can do about it...just remove it, and you can try and spray an anti-fungal thing, which I think we will do...but it's just crazy, and I figured I would amuse you today (or completely gross you out) and share our struggle with you!
I hope none of you have to deal with it!
1 comment:
Dog vomit fungus is the perfect name for it! Yucky! I guess I need to prepare myself for some plant fungus now that we are home owners. =)
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