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To Mokele Haha, sorry, no New Jersey or Thailand. Australia, surrounded by overgrown grass, next to my friends swimming pool.

That was one of my immediate impressions. I have an aunt who works for the csiro and she's stumped as to what it is. Might give it to someone who knows their shit. The tissue on the inside of the tubes resemble the flesh of like a squid but I doubt the hybrid amphibious plant theory will hold much water! Haha. Part of me does hope it's an alien species. That would be great!

To ecoli Because it has a root system. Though I'm not 100% on the whole plant thing. I'd love to have found some weird porous animal. What do you recon?

Ok, i was digging around in a friend's garden helping her do so weeding when with my shovel i hit this really strange plant (unfortunately cutting it in half). I bagged it, put it on ice and then proceeded to wonder what the hell it was! It was purple and porous, kind of like a sponge to the touch. Smelt like... shit, to put it bluntly and these little red things that look like dendrites (like basic diagrams at least) that protrude from the outer rim of the top of the bulbous, tubular structures which make up the bulk of the plant. Inside the tubes are slimy with black (what i think are superficial), verticle stripes. The root system is pretty contained as they do not venture far horizontally from the base of the plant.