u/MadMinutiae

Hi helpful people! Anyone know if this is the harmless and/or beneficial fungi that I’ve read about, oozing out of the side of my compost bin? And hopefully not an old smushed tomato mutating into a slime monster, which is kinda what it looks like? 😅
(Plant ID app was not very helpful; iNaturalist thinks it’s a sea creature)
ETA: South central Wisconsin

My Prairie Smoke is finally blooming - I started it from seed three years ago!