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Weird silver mushroom? on Shitake log. Fungi ID?

 
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Trying to upload pics.  Don't know if it will work but.

Bright shiny silver mushroom on one of my shitake logs.  Looks like a blob of "Great stuff' that spray insulation and someone spray painted it silver.

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Or is it a an insect egg mass?
 
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This is a new one to me!

I wonder if it might be some kind of slime mold? It is giving some false puffball (enteridium lycoperdon) vibes but the color is strange to me. I'm no expect, but I hope one chimes in!

Do you know what wood those logs are?
 
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Those are maple logs from my backyard.
 
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So just a blob, no gills, correct?
 
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right.  no gills that I can see.
 
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This is what it probably is:

It starts off as a white globular mass about the size of half a golf ball, and then develops a silver-grey papery skin [/quote

https://www.naturespot.org/species/enteridium-lycoperdon

 
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