New fungal growth concern?

Hi friends, I went out to the garden, yesterday, and noticed a new type of fungal growth. While my garden tends to have an active fungal network under the wood chips, the blooms are usually just the little common mushrooms that are typical of the area; and I've never seen this before.
I don't necessarily need to ID the species, but am just wanting to see if it's something that could potentially be harmful to me or the plants/trees  growing in the area.

Another patch in a different spot.

Kc,

I can’t specifically state any properties of the fungi you found growing, but I have had similar fungal blooms that suddenly appear and then disappear in a few days.  My initial thoughts are that this is not anything to be worried about.

Over the years I have had lots of woodchips and numerous spontaneous fungal blooms.  One of the most dramatic was a bright yellow foam that appeared overnight.  It did its thing and then apparently disappeared.  The air is loaded full of all sorts of fungal spores, so it’s not surprising that something would stick and start growing on those chips.

At this point I would suggest just observation and keeping note of what’s going on.

Eric

looks like you have an example of a something with a spectacularly appropriate name:

Dog Vomit Slime Mold

Totally harmless, and can safely be ignored.

Michael,

I was thinking the same thing but didn’t quite have the guts to make that call.  Mine looked like that before it turned into a huge blob of bright yellow slime.  Beautiful, disgusting, and perfectly harmless.

Eric

Thank you, both, for the feedback! I tend to be welcoming towards any fungi in the garden, but it's always good to be safe and ask someone more knowledgeable. I went out to check on it this morning and it really does resemble dog vomit.
It seems to really like the wood chips, so it's more than welcome to stay and munch on them.

The Dog Vomit slime mold, is one of the various forms of these organisms, each species has particular color and texture, generally there is no concern since you can do a simple swipe over it and it will deflate and retreat.

In the garden this is actually a good thing, these molds seem to be needed for best fungal activity by the species we really want to have in our gardens.
The SM's are eaten by other fungi, nematodes, amoeba, and particularly by worms.
If you see these in your garden, you are doing lots of things right. There is a Yellow variety and an orange variety that seem to be fond of SCG for a food source.
Slime molds come colors from white to blue to green to yellow and just about everything in-between, depending on the species and location on the planet.

Redhawk

I noticed a similar bloom this year but it was so light that for two mornings in a row I was convinced it was frost, by the third morning I knew it hadn't been frosty cold so I looked closer and found an amazing, gorgeous mycelial mass underneath the one patch I fiddled with

I didn't get around to messing with them until yesterday when I buried a couple of the spots in the wood chip mulch. Both of the piles were dry and released, what appeared to be, spores when they broke apart (very much like a puffball mushroom when it gets dry).
If they were spores, I suspect I'll be seeing more blooms of it in the future; but, if it feeds the soil, I'm great with that.

i get this in my wood chip mulch all the time. completely harmless.