When I was in elementry school, in Teaneck, NJ about ten years ago we had a playground that was covered in woodchips. Eventually we noticed there was something growing on the ground. I am pretty sure it was some type of fungus but the odd thing was that it moved. Not fast or anything but every few days it would be a little bigger and a few feet from where it had been. I'd say that it was a different growth except we put a tiny inkspot on it and the spot was always there. I seem to remember reading about something similar about a year later in some sort of nature magazine but I can't remember what it was. Eventually more sprouted up and the playground was overhauled and asphalt was placed in response to the fungus. From what I remember it was yellow-grayish color about an inch or so thick and in an undefined shape and about a foot wide in some areas. Also I believe it gave off a sickly smell but I could be wrong about that. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
2006-07-16 21:21:28 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
It seems like a slime mold or a water mold. They are pretty cool and sort of gross. Asphault as a fungicide is new to me though. They used to beclassified as fungi, but taxonomy is always changing.
2006-07-17 08:46:46 · answer #1 · answered by speedygondola 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Not fast or anything but every few days it would be a little bigger and a few feet from where it had been". - it means the old one dies and new one grows, the whole organism grows like a growing circle actually, and the individual mushrooms appear at its outer boundary- so it looks as if they are creeping somewhere. the inside of the circle may look as if it was burned or rotten and no more mushrooms grow there- it is the spent part of it. often you can see this - either a complete ring or not. if the ring is fully visible, it is pretty obvious what is goin on, otherwise it is not and you only see the the mushrooms keep moving somevhere
2006-07-17 05:41:49 · answer #2 · answered by iva 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this sounds like a wet rot exept wetrot is a more localized fungi
try a search ony the subject of micology it specificly relates to fingi and mushrooms
2006-07-17 15:56:18 · answer #3 · answered by giantdwarfbat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, there are some slime molds in the myxomycota that have the ability to aggergate and move in the presence of cyclic AMP. This may have been one (some).
2006-07-17 21:57:37 · answer #4 · answered by skeptic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is the rare and edagered moving fungi found in southern africe mostly we used two have some in our garden hope this helps
2006-07-17 04:24:58 · answer #5 · answered by *CBP* 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
never heard of it. but it sounds very interesting. it'd be the world's grossest pet
2006-07-17 04:25:31 · answer #6 · answered by visionary 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋