My is the same as above

rhizo_1 would you take a look at this post of mine? Is it possible to hire you as a consultant?

Thanks

Sorry I forgot the link, and my post on the alien egg should have read my vote is the same as above

Here is the link rhizo_1

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/abeliophyllum-white-forsythia-dsvw-vd~3263970

Immature puffball fungus.

there is no way to avoid them ...

fungus are one of natures decomposers.. and its doing its job.. on whatever is in your soil ..

consider it a free show of ma nature.. and learn to enjoy it ...

i seem to find them mostly under oak trees in my yard ...

i think you need to relax a bit .... if you really want to be a gardener... more a curiosity of what you found.. rather than sounding like you typed this out from the dark closet in the basement .. for fear of it.. lol ...

ken

ps: and no.. i would not eat any mushroom or fungus i found in my yard.. unless some local expert came over.. and took the first bite ... i would not rely on strangers on the WWW for proper ID ... too many look alikes... there are hunter clubs everywhere ....

lol. Ken, you're funny! I admit, I was just being silly but surely you agree that it's quite gross looking. I'm not SKEERED of it. If I twas, I wouldn't have yanked it out of the ground. =) My husband tells me all the time to quit chasing snakes to get pics of them. ;-)

We've only lived in this house for a year and it's the second one I've noticed. No trees above the area at all; however, we do have oaks on our property, just not in this location. I've never seen anything like it before in all my years of gardening. And there's certainly no chance of me eating it! BLECH!! Thanks for your humor! =D

dickmarti14 - it's certainly doesn't feel like a "puff" ball. It feels more like a rock!

flashphoto - I figured that was what you meant. Oh, and your link goes to a post about trimming a white forsythia. =]

rhizo_1 - Since I've uprooted it, do you think it's going to grow much more in the next few days?

Cherawkee, it probably won't continue to develop if you've uprooted it. I was thinking that you had more. What will happen, if allowed to develop normally, is that the 'hide' on the egg will split open and a stinkhorn mushroom will emerge.

Stinkhorns range from the grotesque to obscene to beautiful....many species arise from these eggs. They are called stinkhorns because many of them smell to high heaven!

Flashphoto, you are welcome to email me via gardenweb/houzz. I am set up to accept email

Good Morning rhino_1. I am not finding the message button on your profile. Can you message me? and I would reply? I am really not sure how to message on houzz Thanks Vince

lol. Ken, you're funny!

==>>> i mow my 5 acres at speed ... once these mature.. and dry ... and are at least the size of a basebball ...

when you hit it.. it looks like a smoke bomb went off behind the riding mower ... hence the term puff ...

i make sure to continue on.. rather than spinning around and driving thru the spores ... or hold my breath if need be ...

yeah.. that closet comment .. i cracked myself up ....

ken

That's if it's a puff ball mushroom, ken. I'm pretty sure that these things are not puff balls.

i have both ... these dry and disintegrate with the mower ...

the puffers are much smaller.. dont notice when i hit them ... but the kids used to love playing with them ...

ken

Stinkhorn eggs aren't filled with dry spores, ken. The things pictured in the OP are not puff ball mushrooms, but the egg-like structures from which stinkhorn mushrooms grow.

Perhaps you could open up the link that I attached in the earlier post and look at some images. Puff balls are similar looking...close, but no cigar.