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[OC] Hair Ice (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cosmicrookie@lemmy.world to c/pics@lemmy.world
 

I got help here on Lemmy to identify what this is. It turns out it's ice, that forms on dead wood but not the bark and is initiated by a fungus that lives there. Very interrsring reading

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_ice

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[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Oh heavens. I thought it said hair LICE and thought that was a disgusting close up of the flakiest scalp and most confusing hair follicles ever.

[–] GarytheSnail@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Very cool. Did you only see this on this one branch or was there more around it?

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There were loads that day but had never seen them before. Apparently they need quite specific conditions to grow. I took some more pictures

https://imgur.com/gallery/rWBdhMl

[–] GarytheSnail@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

So cool. I would love to see macro photos of the "roots" of the ice.