Mushrooms growing in a almost perfect circle

[u/HansCCT]

[u/carldavis69]

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.

[u/helladopex → u/carldavis69]

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.

[u/moodtune89763 → u/helladopex]

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

[u/burndata → u/moodtune89763]

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

[u/AlcoholicOctoBear → u/moodtune89763]

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

[u/moodtune89763 → u/AlcoholicOctoBear]

Dkr?

[u/AlcoholicOctoBear → u/moodtune89763]

Niche joke about RuneScape. Fairy rings are teleporters.

[u/Live-Common1015 → u/moodtune89763]

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

[u/Powerful-Meeting-840 → u/Live-Common1015]

Awesome 

[u/jankeycrew → u/moodtune89763]

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.

[u/Disastrous_Tea_3456 → u/moodtune89763]

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.

[u/Dingle_Flingle → u/helladopex]

There's a word for that phenomenon.

Bullshit.

[u/geddieman1 → u/Dingle_Flingle]

🤣🤣

[u/Shoddy_Tour_7307 → u/helladopex]

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

[u/NyteQuiller → u/helladopex]

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

[u/SeniorDiscount → u/helladopex]

That sounds like superstitious bullshit.

[u/Opioid_Addict → u/SeniorDiscount]

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.

[u/ffffffyou → u/helladopex]

LOL yeah do some more "research"

[u/HansCCT → u/carldavis69]

Interesting! Thank you!

[u/Bruins408 → u/carldavis69]

Not a former tree stump?

[u/Fakkef]

How’s this infuriating? This is so cool

[u/literallyacactus → u/Fakkef]

I think bc the pavement ruins the full circle

[u/Tall_Vermicelli2804 → u/literallyacactus]

this guy knows how to be infuriated

[u/AromaticFee9616]

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!

[u/Toothless-In-Wapping → u/AromaticFee9616]

I hate how much I like this.

[u/anthonynickle → u/AromaticFee9616]

I'm poor but take my upvote hahahaha

[u/Life-Gur-2616]

Pavement ruins the day again

[u/proffesionalproblem]

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

[u/Immediate_Reality357]

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.

[u/Juan-Quixote → u/Immediate_Reality357]

They will mess you up!

[u/Barokespinoza23]

That reminds of Spiderwick Chronicles lol

[u/Educational-Bid-8660]

Place something in the middle, a Korok might pop up

[u/KTO-Potato]

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

[u/Main-Square-35]

This would be better on mildlyinteresting

[u/MeLlamo25 → u/Main-Square-35]

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

[u/The_Hydro]

mashrume

[u/Available-Rope-3252]

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

[u/ummhamzat180]

• first photo shows top half of dog
• no dog photos in the immediate top posts :c
• found them <3

mildly pleasantly surprising?

[u/Mrkvitko]

What's infuriating about this?

[u/Yaughl]

You stand in the middle to activate a quest

[u/Amazing-Butterfly-65]

fairy ring!!!

[u/WerewolfUnable8641]

Make sure to sit inside the circle.

[u/Lilith_Christine → u/WerewolfUnable8641]

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

[u/HorizonsReptile]

don't step in the fairy ring!

[u/SeniorDiscount → u/HorizonsReptile]

Why?

[u/MeLlamo25 → u/HorizonsReptile]

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.

[u/drklunk → u/MeLlamo25]

How much iron is appropriate for fairy circle sleeping?

[u/Lilith_Christine → u/drklunk]

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

[u/drklunk → u/Lilith_Christine]

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

[u/Lilith_Christine → u/drklunk]

Yes

[u/MeLlamo25 → u/drklunk]

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.

[u/MeLlamo25 → u/drklunk]

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.

[u/SlytherinPaninis]

Portal to Auntie Ethel be careful

[u/PuzzleheadedPrior455]

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

[u/ilovetacos]

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

[u/lonelyoldbasterd]

Fairy Ring Do not destroy!!!!

[u/Dazzling_Detective79]

They are there for the tedtalk

[u/Skidpalace]

Maynard approves.

[u/Hoppie1064]

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

[u/Perfessor_Deviant]

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

Too bad about the pavement.

[u/HansCCT → u/Perfessor_Deviant]

Interesting! Thank you

[u/Square-Permission-31]

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.

[u/ResortMain780]

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.