Let\'s play WTH is this? (Update)

PegaZus

PegaZus

Stealth Freak
Since CMON is widely know as the common repository of all knowledge, here\'s something we\'ve found in the flower bed. Not sure when they came up, and my Google-fu has failed. Even the Bing-fu. I\'ve tried \"purple fungus\", but come up empty as nothing seems to match. They don\'t have stems, so aren\'t any mushrooms that I know of; and are too big for slime molds (I think).

Two of these purple blobs could fit side by side on a regular CD. They\'ve got this mottled purple coloring on a thin skin. If you break one open, they\'ve got a clear jelly surrounding a hard, white, disk-like center. We\'d found a couple of them when we were disassembling the deck, but they were shriveled up and rubbery, so I dismissed them as old rubber jelly-filled bouncing balls.

Anyway, someone have thoughts on what these are?

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Kalidane

New member
Hmmm looks to be something you really don\'t want to bring into the home...

I hope someone can make a positive ID on these things \'cos they are pretty damned disturbing.
 
In Chigh P.I.

In Chigh P.I.

New member
squig droppings? lol

I would guess its maybe some sort of plant or wood sap that has reacted with water and/or oxygen?

just a wild guess...
 
EArkham

EArkham

Necromancer
Snake or turtle eggs. Eggs that turn purple are a sign of too much humidty (or so the internets tell me).

Kep
 
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Torn blue sky

New member
They do resemble snake or turtle eggs. Both of these animals tend to lay them in a pit though...

At a guess i\'d say that\'s what they are , however. Kep is spot on with the humidity turning them purple. Reptile and turtle eggs aren\'t hard, they\'re leathery. As such you can see how they look uneven. The shreddy purply bit seems to just be the upper most \"dermis\" of the shell.

And of course if you can pick them up off the ground without uprooting them i\'d say that\'s a dead givaway lol
 
PegaZus

PegaZus

Stealth Freak
I\'m pretty sure that they\'re not animal. For one, snakes that large wouldn\'t be around here (we\'d be talking python size) and it\'s too cold for turtles. For another, there\'s no animal parts inside. Just a single hard white urinal cake thing.

Another set of four have emerged from the soil nearby, and are brown. Two of those have sloughed off their \"sack\". I\'m going to keep an eye on them and hopefully they\'ll grow something more identifiable.
 
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skeeve

Member
Having a mycologist behind my back right now I can confirm that these are fungus, most likely
one of more complex basidiomycetes. That brown thing on the top is not clear but take a look at guys that belong to genus Phallus. Btw, if you do image search I suggest to add \"mushroom\" to the string to cut off porno sites

More specifically it could be Phallus impudicus but hard to say from the image
 
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stubert

New member
They look like some kind of puffball fungi, past there sell by date.

Or a Tyranid thingy.

Eat it and tell us what it taste like. :D
[size=-2]\'No dont. It probable taste like shit.\'[/size]

.....stu.....
 
Sand Rat

Sand Rat

New member
Listening to the sciencetist, I found this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_impudicus

and this -
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/phallus_impudicus.html

and even a stinkhorn hall of fame -

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/stinkhorn_fame.html
 
PegaZus

PegaZus

Stealth Freak
I think we\'ve got a winner with Phallus hadriani because of the purple skin. I\'ll have to post some pics when it, er, erects. Thanks all!
 
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