Quite new to foraging, how come these mushrooms grow in a circle?
I do hope OP hasn’t been taken by the fae.
I’m alive, I think?
Alive, yes… but…
I’m no expert but these are called Fairy Circles iirc. Apparently whatever substrate they grow on is consumed, so they expand in a circular fashion- think of burning a paper starting from a point in its center.
That’s my understanding too, the substrate often being a root ball from a long gone tree
They are there to remind you what trees grew up to before we started “managing” forests
Mushroom funco grow in a circular pattern under the ground. The entire area inside the circle is the fungus. The fungus fruits at its edges.
I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious, and I wouldn’t step into that circle.
I would
So you’re hypostitious?
