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Staying with family in Iowa a few weeks ago, my 7 yo described finding two growths on a maple in the yard she described as looking like bubble gum. Looked it up, and was fairly certain it was Wolf’s Milk (Lycogala epidendrum*), “*a cosmopolitan species of myxogastrid amoeba which is often mistaken for a fungus.” The highly scientific method of poking with a stick proved my suspicion correct. Wikipedia article here.