Reptiles101
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Fungus/mushrooms
Seriously? It's not a sperm plug or anything other than a type of fungus, you can clearly see 2 stems branching from it.
They look like sperm plugs with a bit of uric acid expelled at the same time. To the right are the sperm plugs with a somewhat transluscent colour and to the left is the uric acid with its solid white colour.
The usually visible growth of fungi is in fact only the fruiting body. The bulk of any fungus is the feeding threads (called hyphae) which are in intimate contact with the organic material on which the fungus is feeding. A certain level of moisture is required to sustain the hyphae but it does vary between species. Fungi can grow in dark or light but given that in nature light usually means sunlight, and that sunlight has a drying effect, hyphae are often not present near the surface. However, in places where moisture is plentiful and reliable, fungal hyphae can be seen growing on the surface of their food source.
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I think you will find even a small amount of moisture will inhabit some forms of fungus, moisture from deification is more than enough to stimulate growth of certain types of fungus.
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