I almost didn't post these pictures because of their.....uuuummmmmm, shape. There are just these two out there that I have found.
I believe you've found a Phallus impudicus or one closely related to it, Toni. They're weird and they stink. Edit: Found it on Wikipedia too.
Thanks Droopy, I just knew they would have a name like that Other than drawing flies and stinking so they harm the garden in anyway? I am thinking I need to start pulling them up so I won't have a yard filled with them.
Since they're edible I assume they won't harm anything growing in your garden. I remove fungi from the acid-soil borders all the time. They're not as graphic as yours, though. They look more like dried-up brain, and they're fairly poisonous too. Morels or Gyromitra esculenta I think they're called. The Finnish eat them, but they're nuts anyway.
Ha, what a name - most fitting, apparently. Fungi are such interesting things, some of the shapes boggle me.
