Funky stuff growing in my flowerbed?

Question

Its a small oarnge slathering in the evening. Then in the morning it looks like this picture. After a few days it turns black.

http://home.earthlink.net/~killgorack/pictures/mold1.jpg

Its a slime mold, asl known as "dog vomit mold"

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold

Answer 1

Looks like you have a slime mold, which is a pretty neat organism.


Introduction
Members of this class are commonly referred to as slime moulds. These have thought to belong to both animal and fungi kingdoms at one time or another. It's now known that they are quite unrelated to animals and fungi and now are classified in the Kingdom Protista.

However slime moulds do exhibit characteristics of both fungi and animals. In the feeding stage, the slime moulds moves about as a mass of protoplasm (the plasmodium) feeding on bacteria, spores, and other organic matter much like an amoeba. When the food supply is exhausted or other unfavourable conditions occur, the plasmodium changes, taking on the appearance of a fungus.

Answer 2

It looks like what was growing on the school property of where I was going. It is a mold/fungus. It came with the mulch that was put there for landscaping.

Answer 3

It's a fungus. It's probably harmless, but if you don't like it - pick it up in it's entirety and toss it.

If it returns, do it again. It was probably carried in by the wind or on the wood chips where it sits.

Answer 4

Take sample to garden center.