Has anyone found a way to get rid of these? I tried mulch from a new supplier this year and have probably dug up 30 or so of the stinkhorns and bulbs this year.

As the submitter I did not want to post a photo after the egg matured and sprung up because its rather phallic. But I can assure you that these are stink horn mushrooms because they grow exactly into what the pictures are on the internet.

I think it is the fungus known as Dog Vomit Slime Mold. Probably named by a 9-year-old boy.

We had a problem with these a few years running. They sure look like what I was told were stinkhorns. If I was unlucky to ferret out the “eggs” very early on, the foul smell would practically knock you over as soon as you came out the door into the garden. Seriously nasty!

Garlic. Mmmmmmmm!

Amphibian eggs. Are turtles amphibians…ha?

Truffles?

Were they stinky? We had some stinky things like this in our mulch and a neighbor knocked on our door telling us they thought we had a gas leak. We decided to cover the nasty things in a plastic bag then remove them. (stinky stinky)

I know all too well they are stinkhorns. Our yard is covered. We dig up 20-50 every day. If they mature, the smell is unbearable!

Looks like an immature earth star mushroom to me.

Yellow slime mold aka scrambled egg slime mold or sacrophytic fungus.

I would have to agree “stinkhorn” or dragon eggs, maybe?

egg yolk fungi?

Slime mold. Lycogala epidendrumis, maybe?

I believe it to be the fruit of the mushroom caused by the warmth and moisture of late.

They are what are ‘commonly’ called – and if you saw one fully, ahem – deployed – Penis Mushrooms! They are also known as Stinkhorn Mushrooms or by their botanical name Phallus impudicus – roughly translated by me to ‘Impertinent Ding Dong’. When they actually come out of the ground from their bulb form, they are one of the most disgusting and noticeably unavoidable things you will ever smell, emitting an odor said to replicate the smell of carrion, rotting flesh. It is this overwhelmingly obnoxious and offensive smell that brings all manner of flies and other flying insects to land on them and then take off with the mushroom’s spores attached to their bodies to be spread around the area. I have had them ‘popping up’ in my front yard garden beds to my ultimate peril and personal disgust and revulsion. Now, every time I see one or more of the bulbs about to pop through the mulch, I get out my hand spade and I dig them up and throw them into my outside garbage bin. If I knew how to, I would banish them permanently!

It looks to me like some kind of stink pot In its early stages. Or maybe ground cherry fruit?

Some species of bird eggs? House Wren, possibly?

Immature stinkhorn maybe?

Garlic! 🙂

Mushrooms?

phallus fungus, or more commonly known as stinkhorns…they’re quite…interesting 🙂

Stinkhorn?

Yellow Slime mold ?

It sounds and smells like stinkhorns, which I’ve encountered in my yard. But mine were a pinkish red with white “eggs” in them.

Devil’s snuff in early stages

Stinkhorn eggs! I have a ton of those and full grown stinkhorns (Ravenel’s) in my mulch. They do stink but are awesome fungi.

Artillery fungus

Are they a fungus, that would be reproducing?

An immature ‘devil’s snuffpack’ fungus?

Garlic

puff balls

wild garlic

It is slime mold which is a plant fungus.

Fungus

Stinkhorns? Just emerging.

It’s a fungus

onions

I have been meaning to send photos of an alien looking growth that comes out of egg-like sacs – I think it might be the same thing! I will post the photos on the Georgia Gardener facebook page to see if they are the same family of pod-things.

Fungus,of some kind. Going to “seed” soon.

Its a stink horn mushroom, im the submittter

Truffles?

Nope – not reptile eggs keep guessing!

Reptile eggs, I incubated some one time and hatched some ring neck snakes.