good to know! your username is so appropriate
That's because it's one fungus with multiple fruiting bodies that all erupt at about the same time.But how do they know all to come up on the same day? That's the faeries...
What you see is only the smallest part of the fungus among us.
NERDS WE SPOIL THE FUN (If you get that Hamilton reference you are my friend)
now this is true magic.But how do they know all to come up on the same day? That's the faeries...
dead and rotting, decomposing.
The now-vestigial claws of long dead giants reach deep beneath the oblivious paws, hooves, and Uggs of fiddly, overly excitable beings scuffing the bare skin of the life-giving soils. As always it falls to us to clean the ugly foetid mess left over by the languishing giants and their decreasingly useful footed attendants. Slowly we extend our tendrils to encompass the tasty giant-ankles in our loving and lifeblood embrace, returning long sequestered nutrients to Mother Soil. We peek above the surface into the accursed dryness, shading our delicate perfection with today’s choice of parasol. And spy the feet of the self-absorbed Scuffers. And think… we’re coming for you with infinite patience.
So yeah, mushrooms have root beneath them, and quite often their root systems (called mycelium) are much larger than the actual mushroom themselves. What we know as "mushrooms" are simply the reproductive organ of the fungus as a whole (kinda like flowers are to a plant). When you see these faerie rings, it actually just means that there's a much larger fungus under the surface (among us) that we know nothing about.That's because it's one fungus with multiple fruiting bodies that all erupt at about the same time.