Hello, My kids and I were gardening and harvesting our red and yukon gold potatoes in our Garden this weekend and we found a strange sort of seed pod down in the straw bale we were harvesting from. I have never seen anything like it and we were hoping to have some help identifying it. Unfortunately, we didn't take a picture and then it got thrown out today. But I will do my best to describe it. My potatoes were growing in a year old Straw Bale garden. I was just digging around and pulled out what looked to me like a potato gone wrong. It was a similar color to a light pink / yellow potato. It has similar light spots all over that some potatoes have. But it was very bumpy with about 8-10 small ( 1 cm) nodes or balls all around. I thought it was just a very weird potato that had grown strangely, but then I noticed a very bright, almost neon orange color. One of the smaller "nodes" or round parts was opening up and inside was an orange seed. I brought it in the house and by the evening all the little nodes had split in half and opened to reveal about 8 separate bright orange "seeds". By today the seed pod exterior part had shriveled up and released all the orange seeds. It turned darker brown and looked dead. Tonight we dug one orange seed out of the garbage and cut it open. The outer orange part had a white flesh in the inside about 2 mm think. This orange seed was about 1/4 inch in diameter. This outer orange fleshy part, was almost similar to an orange peel: orange on the outside, white on the inside pith. Then inside this was a flatish ( 1.5 mm) oval very hard dark brown seed. The orange pith part smelled somewhat citrusey and somewhat like an evergreen I think. It is the most bizarre seed pod I have ever seen. I am beginning to wonder if a squirrel buried it in my garden from somewhere else. Any chance you have any idea what this might be. We homeschool and we're wanting to learn! Thanks, Heidi Buschbach