I suspect this is Badhamia utricularis, a species of slime mould in the family Physaraceae on a dead limb, most likely from an oak tree..
To give you some idea of scale, each of those yellow globules is less than 1 millimetre diameter. This is a 20 shot photo stack to get enough depth of field.
I see #PortfolioDay is trending and wanted to take the opportunity to throw my "mostly" mushroom skewing body of work into the ring.
I've spent the last year and a half crawling around like a weirdo in the woods, for my ongoing project "In the Morning, I'll be Gone," and it's been one of the most rewarding experiences.
Also known as the black chanterelle, black trumpet, trompette de la mort (French), trombetta dei morti (Italian) or trumpet of the dead, djondjon (Haitian).
Two days ago I posted a photo of the best Slime Molds I'd ever found.
Well, today I went back to revisit them. They'd gone from #Pink to #Brown
They were now even harder to photograph, it needed a near half second exposure under the gloomy log, but it was windy and they wouldn't keep still and kept giving off clouds of microscopic brown spores.
Making a fresh start on Mastodon, after feeling dissatisfied with Threads and Instagram! For the uninitiated, I take photos of mushrooms and post photos of my dummy dog along the way.
Lycogala epidendrum, commonly known as wolf's milk or groening's slime, is a cosmopolitan species of myxogastrid amoeba which is often mistaken for a fungus.