Heh, these little things were growing "straight out of" the rock.
They're only about 1/4" tall. Some kind of fungal spore?
Trapper Creek Wilderness, 01-May-2014
Hairy Rock?
Hairy Rock?
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Re: Hairy Rock?
Well that looks like the fruiting body or sporophyte portion of a moss, but the vegetative part (the fine light green stuff covering the rock) does not really look like moss, so perhaps it's another type of bryophte like a liverwort or hornwort.
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Y'know, it's funny. With my eyes, it certainly looked like a bare rock. So much so, that I didn't even question that until reading your response. Still not totally sure, but the full resolution isn't clear enough to say, either. I didn't think of some sort of moss-like thing. That makes sense, I suppose. There are also those *really* little things sprouting up, less than a half-millimeter high. Weird stuff!
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Seems kind of extensive, in area, but the "hairs" could be slime mold fruiting bodies. With the other suggestions I wouldn't expect to see bare rockbelow.
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I should've stuck something in there for scale. The rock was about 6" across, and maybe 2/3 of it is pictured. Those taller "things" standing up were, I'm sure, less than 1/4" in height.
Slime mold, huh? Weird! Just did a google-image search on that, and I'm not sure I've ever seen such diversity of results - every darn photo looks to be of something else entirely from all the others!
Slime mold, huh? Weird! Just did a google-image search on that, and I'm not sure I've ever seen such diversity of results - every darn photo looks to be of something else entirely from all the others!
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Re: Hairy Rock?
creepy-- makes me think of movie Alien 1 Alien2 Alien3