I know this kind of looks like a carrot we buried upside down in the soil just for kicks (except for the fact that it's hollow in the center). In actuality, we don't go burying hollow carrots upside down in our garden for fun, and it turns out that our garden is host to a really weird type of fungus called the stinkhorn (or at least that's my best guess as to what it is).
Last year we noticed these pinkish orange fingers growing randomly here and there in our garden beds. They are kind of disturbing, and very noticeable--the kind of thing that makes you raise your eyebrows and ask if that kind of thing can really grow in nature. They get bigger than the one I've taken a picture of which is already at least three or four inches tall. So far this year, this seems to be our lone random pointing finger but there's still time.
