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

  • the_third@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    I’ve seen this often in the woods around here. When you touch it, it is… barely there for lack of a better description. Really, really little mass fluffed up to the max.