gotta be a mushroom of some sort. And a striking one. Looks like the scream.

Lovely, aren't they, Stinkhorn mushrooms. there are lots of different ones in bright colors and weird forms. I believe they get distributed by bird droppings (not that I can imagine they'd eat those stinky shrooms)
click the link to find out more, and check out the youTube videos :)

Here is a link that might be useful: lovely ones

Cool mushrooms. Think I could get the glow in the dark ones to grow down here?

The Scream!!? LOL LOL
Natives and veggies, you got me and DH laughing so hard, we actually had to wipe tears off... poor Mr Munch.
Sorry everyone ~ back to gardening.

I just call 'em like I see 'em. But happy to entertain.

Susannah

Interesting, yes. Fun? Not so much so. They STINK. (Hence, the name!) OMG. Like a corpse popping outta the ground! YUK!

Marcia

OMG almost fell off my chair Vatives and veggies !LOL Thank you so much for the ID and info abend!! Interesting link too. They are really kind of spooky very Halloweeny.Ok today I'm going to do a little cleaning up out there...Those horrible dollarweed are popping up under the weedblock in my raised bed !! Argh!! Just wanted to thank everyone agian for posting !!
Lorraine