Yellow growth in mulch and a puffball mushroom
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At first glance, it just looked like mulch, but upon closer inspection,
something yellow, and orange, and white was growing beneath it.
When I picked up some of the mulch, it clung together in large clumps,
held together by bright yellow tendrils:
This dead leaf was partly covered by the mystery fungus. It displays the
wave of cotton like fuzz and the orange waffle like structures.
I'm not sure there's a correlation, but about four months prior to this
yellow fungi, or perhaps slime mold, I plucked this puffball
from the same mulch; there were quite a few around:
Curiosity led me to open the puffball mushroom:
Sorry, I have no firm ID on these. The ball seems to be a puffball
mushroom. The yellow stuff - who knows? Drop me an email if you're
sure.