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

  • GarytheSnail
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    10 months ago

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