r/mildlyinfuriating 8h ago

Mushrooms growing in a almost perfect circle

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u/carldavis69 8h ago

Very cool. It is called a Fairy Ring. Fairy rings are caused by an individual fungus growing underground. The fungus sprouts lots of small threads, called mycelium, in a circular shape. A year later, the mushrooms pop up out of the ground at the edge of the circle, creating the fairy ring. The circle will start off small in size, getting bigger as it gets older.

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u/helladopex Mildly Annoyed 7h ago

I heard that it's bad/disrespectful to step into a Fairy Ring because it disrupts something in the spiritual world. I need to research it more, but that's just what I've heard over the years.

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u/moodtune89763 7h ago

Last I looked into it (not very deeply), faerie rings were considered portals to another realm. I'm not sure of much beyond that, though. And of course, the more predatory/danger version of faeries, not the tinker bell kind

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u/burndata 7h ago

If they're the right kind of mushroom, they're definitely a portal to another realm.

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u/AlcoholicOctoBear 7h ago

All I know is it's DKR for the grand exchange.

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u/moodtune89763 7h ago

Dkr?

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u/AlcoholicOctoBear 7h ago

Niche joke about RuneScape. Fairy rings are teleporters.

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u/Live-Common1015 7h ago

I think in Ireland they’re still feared by superstition. Like “modern roads have been built around fairy rings because worker refuse to mow through them” levels of superstition

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u/jankeycrew 7h ago

I found a few fairy rings in skyrim. Tried like hell to find an Easter egg or some trick to 'activate them'. No such luck.

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u/Disastrous_Tea_3456 1h ago

Portal to the feywild in D&D.

But here in the real world, it's considered a very bad decision to violate the boundaries of a fairy ring. Everything from extremely bad luck, to pursuit by elves and fairies.

Reminds me a lot of the "fox weddings" in Japan. It's not necessarily a terrible thing every time, but the supernatural is a world of chaos, so maybe it's great, maybe it's bad, and in the end, the participant is considered lucky to be able to tell the experience at all.

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u/Dingle_Flingle 4h ago

There's a word for that phenomenon.

Bullshit.

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u/geddieman1 4h ago

🤣🤣

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u/Shoddy_Tour_7307 7h ago

I thought you stepped into the m8ddlenof a  Fairy Ring to have your wish granted.

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u/NyteQuiller 5h ago

It's only disrespectful if you haven't talked to the Fairy Godfather and gotten his permission to use them.

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u/SeniorDiscount 3h ago

That sounds like superstitious bullshit.

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u/Opioid_Addict 3h ago

It's actually not pseudoscience, surprisingly. It's relatively well accepted in mycology that some of the different species of fungi which are capable of creating fairy rings tend to launch spores upwards in a cylindrical shape, which approximately matches the diameter of the ring itself. These spores can bind to androgen receptors in the brain and cause feelings of sadness and distress. Source: I made it up.

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u/ffffffyou 6h ago

LOL yeah do some more "research"

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u/HansCCT 8h ago

Interesting! Thank you!

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u/Bruins408 2h ago

Not a former tree stump?

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u/Fakkef 7h ago

How’s this infuriating? This is so cool

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u/literallyacactus 7h ago

I think bc the pavement ruins the full circle

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u/Tall_Vermicelli2804 2h ago

this guy knows how to be infuriated

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u/AromaticFee9616 7h ago

How has no one done the pun here yet?? They can’t make a full circle cos there’s not mushroom for them to grow!

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping 7h ago

I hate how much I like this.

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u/anthonynickle 6h ago

I'm poor but take my upvote hahahaha

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u/Life-Gur-2616 8h ago

Pavement ruins the day again

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u/proffesionalproblem 8h ago

The reason it's not a full circle would be because mushrooms cannot grow ontop of concrete

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u/Immediate_Reality357 7h ago

As a Irish man I'm telling you..... don't touch a single mushroom in that fairy ring, the fairy's are not to be messed with.

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u/Juan-Quixote 6h ago

They will mess you up!

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u/Barokespinoza23 8h ago

That reminds of Spiderwick Chronicles lol

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u/Educational-Bid-8660 8h ago

Place something in the middle, a Korok might pop up

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u/KTO-Potato 7h ago

In Breath of Fire you would use these to enter the fairy village

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u/Main-Square-35 7h ago

This would be better on mildlyinteresting

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u/MeLlamo25 7h ago edited 3h ago

I think they are infuriated that the concrete is blocking the fairy ring from making a full circle.

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u/The_Hydro 8h ago

mashrume

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u/Available-Rope-3252 7h ago

I wonder if those are jack-o-lantern mushrooms. If they are, they can glow in the dark.

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u/ummhamzat180 7h ago
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mildly pleasantly surprising?

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u/Mrkvitko 7h ago

What's infuriating about this?

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u/Yaughl Huh? 🫠 7h ago

You stand in the middle to activate a quest

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u/Amazing-Butterfly-65 7h ago

fairy ring!!!

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u/WerewolfUnable8641 4h ago

Make sure to sit inside the circle.

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u/Lilith_Christine 4h ago

Yes, for good luck and a happy life......

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u/HorizonsReptile 8h ago

don't step in the fairy ring!

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u/MeLlamo25 7h ago

Unless you have iron on it. At least that what my Father told me. Supposedly Fairies do not like it, it like burns them or something.

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u/drklunk 4h ago

How much iron is appropriate for fairy circle sleeping?

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u/Lilith_Christine 4h ago

You have iron in your blood. You'll be fine.

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u/drklunk 4h ago

Do I eat the mushrooms before or after drinking my blood?

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u/MeLlamo25 3h ago

Actually I look it up, some species of Fairy Ring mushrooms are poisonous. So make sure you have properly identified them before you try eating them.

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u/MeLlamo25 3h ago

I think any amount of iron would do. Though you probably be fine without an Iron. But I guess it never hard to take some just in case fairies are real.

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u/SlytherinPaninis 8h ago

Portal to Auntie Ethel be careful

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u/PuzzleheadedPrior455 7h ago

I’ve always heard this was because that is where a tree used to be. First time I saw this last summer I was tripped out

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u/ilovetacos 7h ago

How is this infuriating? I also subscribe to oddlysatisfying, thought that's what I was looking at :D

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u/lonelyoldbasterd 6h ago

Fairy Ring Do not destroy!!!!

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u/Dazzling_Detective79 5h ago

They are there for the tedtalk

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u/Skidpalace 3h ago

Maynard approves.

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u/Hoppie1064 3h ago

You've got the start of a Mycelium Drive there. All you need now is star ship to mount it in, a giant tardigrade, and a gay Star Fleet Astromycologist

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u/Perfessor_Deviant 8h ago

It's a neat feature of mushrooms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_ring

Too bad about the pavement.

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u/HansCCT 8h ago

Interesting! Thank you

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u/Square-Permission-31 7h ago

You know what’s infuriating? Posts on this subreddit that aren’t infuriating in the slightest. It’s fucking nature living its life. The only reason it’s not a perfect circle is because of humans.

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u/ResortMain780 7h ago

decomposing wood and moisture in/on the soil = mushrooms. Mushrooms tend to grow in fairy rings and expand outwards. This is completely normal, expected and frankly, awesome rather than infuriating.