I'm really wishing I had taken a few photographs of it, since I haven't seen it again. While clearing out some of the brush behind my house, I came across this group of red-orange, sponge-like tentacles growing about seven to eight inches out of the ground. I spotted them last year right before summer, it had been a very damp week. Does anyone have a clue as to what they might be?
Search these forums for Mutinus - if those aren't quite right, try searching the forums for stinkhorn (a more generic term covering the group containing Mutinus)