I went for a walk in the woods and found multiple fallen branches with this fairly long growth on them.

I assume that it is a fungus of some sort but does anyone have more info on what kind it is?

I found so many that I eventually stopped taking pictures of it. But I haven’t seen this before so I was surprised, as I spend quite a lot of time in the woods.

  • mihnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    1 year ago

    If you can’t explain it or it’s weird as hell, it’s always a fungus.

    • faintwhenfreeEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      !The fungus shapes the ice into fine hairs through an uncertain mechanism and likely stabilizes it by providing a recrystallization inhibitor similar to antifreeze proteins!<

      I always find these interesting that we still haven’t figure out fungi fully.