Mystery Substance.

[piscatus absentis]

I found this stuff last year and asked what it was - no one had any idea.

Here it is again this year in the same place, only more of it.  Clumps of short (one inch long) and very fine fibres.  Far too fine and too spread out to be animal hairs and anyway what animal sheds pure white fur along 50 yards of path.

Some kind of fungus?

Someone must have seen something similar.

[superscot]

Somebody grooming there dog ?

[sandyborthwick]

Probably an old mattress or similar being removed/dragged along the path. :?

Sandy B.O.

[Its Me]

Somebody grooming there dog ?

thats what i think

[sandyborthwick]

I think the Glove trick confirms it as fungus,

a lot of fungi spread themselves this way but the filaments are very soft and easily removed/obliterated with some basic agitation.

I believe that the biggest living Organism on the planet is meant to be Honey Fungus and that the same specimen will cover a whole wood and is connected. The edge of the grass/path is probably the ideal conduit/specific environment for that particular fungus you have found.

Sandy B.O. 

[Fishtales]

I came across this today.

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This is dog hair but it bears an uncanny resemblance to the stuff you found Bob. This stuff didn't disintegrate on contact though.

[Inchlaggan]

Mycelium- the (largely) underground and unseen part of mushrooms and toadstools.
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[whinging pom]

Pretty sure your right Inchlaggen.
It looks like the lawn is choked with fungus and it had put on a growth spurt recently.
Myceliums can be massive, a fairy ring is one plant (fungus) growning out wards, what we see the of it toadstools are just the fruiting bodies, the main body of the fungus is under the surface.
I am sure i remember reading that they had discovered that fungus can be the biggest living organisms on the planet with some mycelium able to stretch out over a few acres. The one in the photo looks like a woppa.