It might be WHAA-A-AT...??

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

So Ms Helen Brimstone has something strange happening in her lawn.  Walking across the grass the other day I stepped on something hard and lumpy - literally, a hard lump poking up out of the grass.   I stopped and looked at it, and it appeared to be a tree root that had been skimmed by the mower blade - woody colored, stiff, and... well... looking like part of a tree root that had surfaced.  About the size of an apricot.

 

But when I kicked it, it popped loose!  I looked about, and there were several others - and they also popped free with a few kicks.  But wotinell are these things??

 

She posted the query on "NextDoor," and the responses were eyebrow raising - "Why, that's DVSM!  'Dog Vomit Slime Mold!'"  What???  

 

Well, I looked it up, and I'll be danged - that really IS a "thing!"  But this ain't it... DVSM is evidently literally soft and slimy.  AND mobile!  These things ain't.

 

But what the heck are they?   Lawn Tumors?  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Widder, SASS #59054]

Gremlin eggs!

They usually hatch under a full moon.

 

If you speak ill of someone while holding one of the eggs, they will get the 'Curse of the Gremlin' and

have very bad things happen to them during their life time.

 

..........Widder

 

 

[Sedalia Dave]

Looks like Ganoderma sessile.  Is there a possibility that at one time in the past that there was a tree there?

 

Ganoderma is a type of fungus that you usually see growing on dead hardwoods. Looks like woody plates imbedded into the wood. Occasionally it grows up out of the grass as a hard lump.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/mycology/comments/iblfny/does_anyone_know_why_grass_blades_would_grow/

 

 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Looks like some of those Pod things Ripley brought back.

There's only one thing you can do:

[Pat Riot]

I wonder what they look like sawed in half?

 

When I was a kid if we found something strange and bizarre we would take it to the Science Hall at the college. Is there a college or university near you? 

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

Newsom seeds?