Yep, it's mine. My DH was helping me in the garden and said 'WHAT the hell is that??' I asked what he was talking about and said, 'I don't know, you have to come see it. I figured he was pulling my leg and it was a dead critter or something. Guess it was something much scarier!
There was 2 or maybe 3 of those stems all gobbed together, gnarled and split, and the poor thing just rotted and never came back.