This is Enteridium lycoperdon the false puffball - it’s a slime mould that fruits by producing
This is Enteridium lycoperdon the false puffball - it’s a slime mould that fruits by producing a foamy mass that expands from cracks in the wood in which it lives. It then hardens and dries out. The pale, silvery cuticle cracks and falls away to reveal the dusty brown spore mass which then gets carried away on the wind. (Photos sequence taken on 11th, 16th and 23rd of April) -- source link
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