What Is This???

[mydogdory]

I was weeding and found these...What are they? As you can see they aren't "in" the ground but they were.

 

[baymule]

Interesting looking, but I have no idea what they are!

 

[catjac1975]

Weird. What are you thinking bay, plant or cocoon?

 

[Smart Red]

No clue!

 

[Ridgerunner]

No idea. Is anything still alive in that? Are those brown things plant or insect? Maybe the white is a coating around some eggs and the brown things were pupa used as a food source when the eggs hatched. Or are the brown things the eggs and the white mass the food source? Whatever it is, that is weird.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i was thinking it could have been a mushroom but some sort of insect egg sack came to mind too.

 

[journey11]

Looks like Cancer Root (Conopholis americana). I always see a few when I'm out mushroom hunting, in the spring particularly, although I've never dug one up. It's a parasitic plant. Doesn't do much more than look like a funny pine cone-like thing sticking out of the soil.

 

[mydogdory]

I guess you could say it cocooned from the ground because it came out of a shell in the ground by itself. The brown things are part of the plant