The slime mold can cause some damage if it’s on the lawn as it can block sunlight and water to the grass until the slime dries up. The stinkhorn fungus, Phallus impudicus, is also harmless.

Slime mold fungi are particularly disgusting because they are gelatinous and, over time, change color if they’re left undisturbed. Slime molds can lay atop the grass and smother it.

From this gardener’s perspective, a garden good enough for slime mold is good enough for me. Jeremy DeLisle is the program coordinator for the UNH Cooperative Extension Education Center.

The jelly fungi in the photo were on a ponderosa pine log devoid of bark, so I am going to assume here that this species is D. palmatus and will refer to it with its common name, orange jelly.

Slime Molds A common surface mold is slime mold (ex. Physarum sp.) that will rapidly grow over the surface of mulched areas, characterized by a yellow, orange, or white, soft gooey mass. They are ...

When the slime mold accumulates adequate food, the fungus moves into a reproductive phase and usually moves up. In this phase, the grass blades will be covered with pin-head-size structures that ...

These unsightly blobs are a type of fungus-like growth known as slime mold. They're often nicknamed "dog-vomit fungus" for their uncanny resemblance to that type of wet blob.

The gross-looking substance known as slime mold shows up on mulch and lawns, but is harmless to plants. Instead it feeds on decaying matter, fungi or bacteria.

Slime molds reproduce with spores, which led biologists to lump them with fungi, along with familiar household molds. But things are not so simple. Slime molds behave like animals when they are ...

A: It sounds as though you have an interesting garden visitor know by the not-so-flattering name of slime mold. These are fungus-like organisms often recognized by the aggregation of tiny amoeba ...