Star Jelly?

[copper_head]

I've been in the Yorkshire Dales this week and while walking up Ingleborough I found two piles of clear, gelatinous stuff. It was raining pretty hard so couldn't get a picture but found one on google images and it looked exactly like this.

The internet isn't being very helpful in giving any explanations as to what this stuff is. Anyone know anything about it or come across it themselves?

 

[Mouse040]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/articles/jelly/

 

[xylaria]

I would think it was a slime mold.

edit But it isnt. Ediinburgh uni analysed it and found it doesn't have DNA. So it aint life as we know it.

 

[copper_head]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/articles/jelly/

Yeah that's where I got the picture but no conclusive explanation, weird stuff!

 

[copper_head]

I would think it was a slime mold.

edit But it isnt. Ediinburgh uni analysed it and found it doesn't have DNA. So it aint life as we know it.

How very odd! I put this thread in Flora and Fauna but I was somewhat unsure which section to put it in.

 

[ozzy1977]

Sheep snot?

 

[greensurfingbear]

Sheep snot?

Get spots of it in the hills of inverclyde, we tell the kids on the guided walks that its God Snot.

 

[Harvestman]

I put up a post about some of this stuff a while back. I'll see if I can find it.

 

[Harvestman]

I put up a post about some of this stuff a while back. I'll see if I can find it.

Well, I didn't find my post, but I did find this thread

 

[Elgatoloco]

Seen it last year not far away from Ben Lawers....sadly I didn't have my camera with me back then...weird stuff it is, I even played with it a little lol. It taste OK, bit too salty perhaps.

 

[quietone]

No DNA ! Really.. Blimey, sounds like a cover up to me.
Odd stuff, is it edible? Looks like it could be one of our five a day..

 

[copper_head]

I put up a post about some of this stuff a while back. I'll see if I can find it.

Well, I didn't find my post, but I did find this thread

Thanks Harvestman, some interesting reading.

 

[Rod Paradise]

We had a lot in the field by the house last year - with little black specks in some of it. Never did find out what it was.

 

[xylaria]

Seen it last year not far away from Ben Lawers....sadly I didn't have my camera with me back then...weird stuff it is, I even played with it a little lol. It taste OK, bit too salty perhaps.

Curiouser and curiouser. I did wonder if aeroplanes used silcia gel in the loos, after some near misses with frozen urine blocks falling from the sky. But they dont , passenger planes are emptied by ground crew now.

Plants that make mucilage do so out starch/sugar, it wouldnt taste of salt.

 

[Bowlander]

I doubt its edible if crows/herons don't eat it when they've eaten the frog.

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[Elgatoloco]

Curiouser and curiouser. I did wonder if aeroplanes used silcia gel in the loos, after some near misses with frozen urine blocks falling from the sky. But they dont , passenger planes are emptied by ground crew now.

Plants that make mucilage do so out starch/sugar, it wouldnt taste of salt.

To be honest, if it was tested by random universities and scientists I suppose it wouldn't be hard to match it to existing substance. Whatever that is, it's quite weird. I believe it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

 

[RE8ELD0G]

The woods i hammock in have this same gloop mostly on rotten logs and tree branches.
Been getting it on my hands while collecting firewood and also wondering what it was....

 

[xylaria]

The woods i hammock in have this same gloop mostly on rotten logs and tree branches.
Been getting it on my hands while collecting firewood and also wondering what it was....

There is a fungus that looks like star jelly that grows on wood called exidea nucleata.

http://fungi-of-clumber-park.co.uk/fungi finds/22dec/22DEC2011.html

This page has a picture of both.

 

[Bowlander]

Not many rotting logs on Ingleborough. The slime moulds look similar but they would be attached to rotting wood.

The stuff I have found looks like the first pic, its definitely from the spawn jelly producing parts of a female frog as there were remains of frog nearby.

No need to call Mulder and Scully!

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