What is this weird thing in my garden soil?
Unfamiliar growths attached to the ground can look like dropped flowers or strange mushrooms covered in foul-smelling brown stuff. Not knowing what these actually are leaves people completely confused, forcing them to hope someone else can identify them.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Asking for identification help on gardening forumsDid this help you?
- 2Observing the organism's movement and behaviorDid this help you?
- 3Posting photos to community forums to crowdsource identification.Did this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“at first i thought is was just flower that dropped. But then it was attached to the ground. Seems like a mushroom species? *note the top of it with the brown stuff - smells like crap. Wth is this*”source ↗
“I don’t know. Was hoping someone here can identify.”source ↗