HeyBub wrote:
Red wrote:
On Aug 12, 3:18 pm, ransley wrote:

white mushrooms are from buried decaying wood.
True in many cases but not this one. These are coming up randomly over
the whole yard and not in a line that would indicate old roots. Would
decaying mulch provide the same growing medium as decaying wood?

Just wait. As the mushroom matures, it will fling out spoors in a circular
pattern. The next generation (in a couple of weeks or so) will be a "fairy
ring." Quite cute, actually.

AFAIK, the theory is that fairy ring mushrooms are the result of a
single organism (mycelium (sp?) rings a bell???) and the observable
mushrooms are simply reproductive bodies but the the reason for their
production in ring mushrooms isn't definitely understood. But, it isn't
that the spores of one generation form another in a circle around it.

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