Why
Wild Mushrooms Grow In Circles
When
you see wild mushrooms growing in fields or on lawns they often
grow in circles.
People
have wondered about them for hundreds of years and used to call
them "fairy
rings" and
believed elves and goblins danced round them at night.
They
believed it was lucky if a "fairy ring" grew on your land.
Today
we believe that a "fairy
circle"
started from a single spore. Each year the plant grows a little
further outwards in search of more food. The mushrooms grow only
on the outer part of the plant.
So
they grow ever outwards, in circles, in search of more food to
eat.
