I keep thinking it reminds me of puffball mushrooms, but they don't make fruit underground, do they? How interesting if this should be an egg of some kind!
I think those are the same fungus that I had growing in my yard. They are called Stinkhorns. They are a disgusting fowl smelling slimy fungus.
Hmmm... very interesting. I googled that and it said the stinkhorn starts out as egglike structures under the ground so that fits. The egglike things definately did not smell bad (I smelled them)... I guess we will have to wait to see if a smelly fungus comes up out of the egg-things... I've searched several times and this is the only thing I've seen that remotely resembles what we found. THANKS!!! Here's the link I found by googling for anyone who is interested: http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0504.htm Daisyb.
Aha, a Stinkhorn. How nice to finally know what that stuff is. We've got them in the woods here and there, but I've never come across any below ground.
Ongoing root mystery Here is an exciting update on the mystery of the weird pod like things found among mulberry roots... This is what my neighbor found growing in the same area where he found the original roots with the pod-like things attached. CHECK IT OUT!!! You can see the pod-like thing at the base of the orange mushroom. The pod thing remained under the ground, the orange fungus grew out of it. mushroom that grew from the pod ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden ) It had a sort of gooey-like top that broke off. mushroom with the top off ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden ) Another shot of the mushroom growing out of the pod-like base. mushroom with pod-like base ( photo / image / picture from daisybeans's Garden ) S0-- does anyone know what this particular thing is? Someone suggested Stinkhorn, BUT, I don't think it is that. From what I read about Stinkhorn, it really smells BAD and this doesn't have an odor at all. I examined the gooey top, and gave it a sniff to be sure! Thanks. We are one step closer to solving the mystery!
I found these in my yard last year. They are in the Stinkhorn family but are http://www.richard-seaman.com/Fungus/Phallic/index.html
Toni, that first picture looks exactly like it -- the only thing, it didn't smell. But I'm thinking that maybe the smell had dissipated by the time he found it? Thank you for the link. That is very interesting.
