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Is this a puffball? Found in my garden in Tucson.

Lulubelle Davis

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Earlier this morning, it was puffier. I think it developed overnight. Now it is oozing with the morning sun hitting it. My daughter also poked it with a stick before I could stop her. But that was after it started oozing. Thanks!

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Diane Kistner

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Lulubelle Davis wrote:Earlier this morning, it was puffier. I think it developed overnight. Now it is oozing with the morning sun hitting it. My daughter also poked it with a stick before I could stop her. But that was after it started oozing. Thanks!

Doesn't look like a puffball. If you cut it in half, what does the inside look like?

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Also doesn't look like any puffball I've ever seen. I've never seen one ooze.

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Try uploading your photo into Google image search and see if anything like it turns up. I was going to say maybe it's some kind of slime mold or stinkhorn in its early stages, but I have no idea. The light brown part looks slime-moldish. The oozing part looks stinkhornish.

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