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what have I dug up?
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Hello diving my infernal green alkanet bed and dug up the below.
Any ideas what it is (its freaked me out) there was a tree stump that had rotted here too
I kinda looks like 2 white brains and nerves really hoping its not
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Your picture seems to have fallen off the bottom of the page.
I'm working on getting it, google have changed how they sync photos between phone and tablet!
Looking forward to seeing the monstrous "brain".
I think its a fungus. Is it bad? Do I have to get the white stringy stuff out of the bed
I don't know! Googled it and not clear there was a tree there but areas stump no idea how long it had been there or what this stuff is. Worried about my plants if it is but do not know where else to get advise. Will destroy the stuff I have but don't want rest of garden harmed. Very worried now
No it's not honey fungus. Most fungi are at least harmless, mostly beneficial.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I wouldn't be worrying
It's just fungus helping with the decomposition process of the tree stump. The ground is full of it, but we don't often see it. 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Definitely nothing to worry about as already said. I think they are the actual fruiting bodies forming under the ground and which would have later broken the surface as the more familiar 'mushroom' or 'toadstool' we usually see. It's just that we don't often see them at the stage you happened to dig them up.
Thank you been worrying all day! I've bagged them up as worrying that my garden was going to die - its the bed that had been solid green alkanet until it was evicted so was worrying I wasn't having much luck.
Thank you for putting mind at rest, will worry about what oh and his dad have done doing diy in my office then
Thanks again might actually find something nice plant there