What is this?

[John Fenna]

This strange looking ooze is coming from a sycamore tree and I assume it is something to do with the sap dripping out of severed branches.
The ooze is like a stalagmite, with sap running off the underside, but is of a rubbery concistancy - the colours are wierd - bright orange and white with the orange seeming older than the white.
The sap is dripping off every couple of seconds.
Beats me!

 

[Greg]

Look out for the men in black suits, strange lights and a government cover up!

 

[DoctorSpoon]

I wonder if whoever cut the tree painted something on that was intended to stop it regrowing? The rising sap could have mixed with it and formed to goo maybe??

 

[Bernie Garland]

whatever it is I'm glad I'm not in Pembrokeshire, looks to me like the start of. the day of the triffids

bernie

 

[SOAR]

Could be some sort of slime mould

http://www.aphotofungi.com/SlimeMould-Leocarpus fragilis-cu-09-11-06.jpg

 

[canadianwildman]

that looks yummy

 

[Dr Onion]

You've discovered a primordial goo!! New life!!! Harvest it and you can be a GOD when it eventually evolves in a few millenia!!

So, no! I have no idea what it is!

Dr O

 

[Tadpole]

This strange looking ooze is coming from a sycamore tree and I assume it is something to do with the sap dripping out of severed branches.
The ooze is like a stalagmite, with sap running off the underside, but is of a rubbery concistancy - the colours are wierd - bright orange and white with the orange seeming older than the white.
The sap is dripping off every couple of seconds.
Beats me!

It looks like some kind of bacterial canker, the canker can turn the sap of some trees, all shades from blood red to tar.

 

[MikeE]

Many years ago (and I do mean many), I worked for a Wildlife trust and the conservation officer painted sycamore stumps witha "topical herbicide", the results look very similiar! Not sure it was totally legal even then!
My ..she did hate sycamore with a vengeance!

 

[John Fenna]

You've discovered a primordial goo!! New life!!! Harvest it and you can be a GOD when it eventually evolves in a few millenia!!

So, no! I have no idea what it is!

Dr O

What do you mean "can be.... eventually" ask the girls around here - I AM a GOD already (or am I going dyslexic?)

 

[mariobab]

Maybe it`s some of jelly fungi.They are very diverse in shape(shapeless?) and colors.Try with magnifying glass.Dripping is maybe only sap from wound,springtime is here,vegetation is on.