Fairy Ring Mushrooms

Thank You !!

Nice spotting... learning lesson...!!

Lol My Co worker asked me that question today! How the Mushrooms form/in a circle. I told him I would look it up! Thank You! I think I had also read that the barren spot is usually a problem grass area on people lawns, due to the depleted nutrients.

Thanks for sharing pyoung and thanks for all the info . Very interesting! and to continue from where you left off,
The truth is much less romantic, but perhaps does need to be told. Fact is that fungi such as toadstools use up a lot of Nitrogen when growing. They will therefore tend to spread their spores outward from where they are located so that the new growth has soil to grow in which still contains what they need. As nutrients are depleted the growth continues in that circular fashion. So the feet of mystical beings have no bearing on the barren nature of the ring middle. There's just nothing left there for the fungi to feed on.

Hi Emma,
My co worker told me it was a legend passed down from his british family, so I looked it up and found Fairy rings, as they have long been called, have occupied a popular place in folklore for thousands of years.

Wales is believed to be a popular spot for fairy dances. A Devon legend says that a black hen and chickens sometimes appear at dusk in a large fairy ring on the edge of Dartmoor.

Victorian society believed that fairies, elves and witches were all closely associated with one another, and malevolent toward humans. Scandinavian and Celtic traditions have it that fairy rings are caused by elves dancing,

Fairies are magical beings who create the circles by dancing within them

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/pla...

I had never heard of them before. :)

Why is this called Fairy Ring Mushroom?