What kind of fungus is this?

[Gordon S]

32 minutes ago, weevilluvr said:

Unfortunately I didn’t get close enough to tell

I wouldn't have got close either!

 

[Squaredy]

10 hours ago, weevilluvr said:

I have asked everyone all over the internet and I have searched high and low and I have no idea if this even is a fungus anymore, someone please help!!

Send photos of it to the natural history museum in London.  They will have an expert who will work out what it is.

 

 Or you could even collect it and send it to them, but I suspect good photos will suffice.

[Stere]

Sure its not melted plastic foam etc?

[Squaredy]

1 hour ago, Stere said:

Sure its not melted plastic foam etc?

Now I have looked at it on a PC it actually does look like plastic.  Maybe this is a big windup?

[weevilluvr]

1 hour ago, Squaredy said:

Now I have looked at it on a PC it actually does look like plastic.  Maybe this is a big windup?

Its not! Not from me at least! I genuinely found it like this and genuinely want to know what it is!

[sime42]

What did it taste like? 🤔

[weevilluvr]

11 minutes ago, sime42 said:

What did it taste like? 🤔

Definitely did not taste it, didn't even touch it

[Excels1or]

On 16/05/2023 at 20:57, weevilluvr said:

Looks like it might be a stinkhorn of some variety, they can grow some pretty bizarre shapes

 

[weevilluvr]

Update: I went back and whatever it was it is no longer there

[OOO]

It looks like a type of red algae to me. Someone probably collected it, had it stashed in their car door, parked in the car park and it fell out.

I have lost hats and books and all sorts that way.

It has probably been run over, carried off by a bird or animal or tidied up some other way. 
Wish you’d have smelled it, turned it over or picked it up!