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Help - I’ve grown brown jelly!!!

jasminewhitejasminewhite Posts: 21
in Problem solving
Can anyone tell me what this jellyish gunge is around my plants?! There’s loads of it in one particular area. It looks like the jelly off cat food 🤢. Happy to leave it if it’s a friend of the garden but it doesn’t look it is.

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  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Type of slime mould.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Just a fungus, you could dig it in the ground. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    I always thought it was a type of fungus, but recently slime moulds have been removed from  that part of the plant kingdom.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Amazing organisms.
    A recent article in New Scientist provided this link to some beautiful photos of them (a lot prettier that the gunk above :))

    https://www.barrywebbimages.co.uk/Images/Macro/Slime-Moulds-Myxomycetes/
     

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    Wonderful photos  @Pete.8
    Thanks for the link.That brown jelly should really be on the Nature Table :)
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    Wow @Pete.8 - they are amazing! I particularly like the ones encased in gold threads and the one that looks like an egg yolk dripping with the white - a sight bakers see often!
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Those photos are amazing!
    The first one looks as if they're on the way back from a successful shopping trip😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Stunning photos @Pete.8 
  • jasminewhitejasminewhite Posts: 21
    edited October 2021
    Pete.8 said:
    Amazing organisms.
    A recent article in New Scientist provided this link to some beautiful photos of them (a lot prettier that the gunk above :))

    https://www.barrywebbimages.co.uk/Images/Macro/Slime-Moulds-Myxomycetes/
     
    Yeah mine doesn’t look like that. Still it’s good to have goals 😂
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    edited October 2021
    Maybe yours just needs some encouragement 🤣

    Keep an eye on it, it may just be at an early stage - the weird and wonderful fruits may follw!

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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