They grow in rings only because the sprites are geometricly disinclined, and stars are too tough for them.
Hairy Houdini Member
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 07:42 PM
Well, they are odd... I get a Fairy Ring Circle on the lawn, about 50 feet from my home. I get mushrooms that grow in a circular pattern about 12 feet across, and even after the shrooms are gone, there seems to be a number of small toads that frequent that area. I have to be quite patient when I mow, as I easily chase 30 little toads from the circle... there's been no tree there, as far as I know, no animal pen, no underground tank. It's not a pooled area- it has no distinction from the other part of the lawn, but for the circle... very curious
The only way to totally remove a 'fairy ring' (other than severing their finger) is to dig up and remove the whole thing, and replace it with fresh soil.
They are caused by a fungus under the surface (circular in shape), and the mushroooms that grow are not the whole organism. They simply grow around the edges of it, and are the only part that shows above the surface.
Around here (San Diego) we have something neat; The large harvester ants collect seeds to eat, but don't eat all of them, and put them out as trash. The 'lamdfill' is usually a ring around the nest entrance, about one or two inches thick. Some of these seeds start to grow, and after the nest disappears, a ring of grass appears.
Evildream, your logic is right, but that's not really how it works. Spores are so light that they blow away anyways.
And Hairy, count yourself lucky, I don't see many fungi around here, and I love them. Sad.
Evildream
in You mamas house Member
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 08:24 PM
what ever just using what i know and then guessing.
I'm not sure if the spore thing or the ant thing explains the toad thing, tho. Any thoughts as to why the toads seem to gather in the ring? Could be ants eating the spores, and then the toads eating the ants, but I think it the wee folk wending their wizardly ways
Hairy Houdini
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 08:39 PM
Okay, then from what I'm reading and what you guys have said, it suggest that my lawn has a "diseased" area 12 around. Well, I'm glad it's 50 feet away from my window. I'll keep an eye out, and let you know if it starts to grow any. I predict it may.
A six-foot tall mushroom would render a 12 foot across mushroom ring, by Evildream's reasoning. A 12 foot mushroom would render a 24 foot mushroom ring.
"Um...
Mushrooms are grown from spores...
They are egected ot forming a circle arount the parent musroom...
Which dies and all you see is the ring of baby mushrooms...
m <------ M ------> m
(360)" - ED
Is it just me? I see no reference at all to the width, height, radius, or diameter of a mushroom in any of ED's posts.
Saying inches instead of feet threw me off for a second, but I assumed that you meant feet anyway.
But honestly, I still have no idea what the hell you're talking about.
And how do you know ED's reasoning on this? He hasn't posted it.
Razzle Berry
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 03:05 AM
Most likley you are seeing the faerie rings beacause you ate the mushrooms in the middle
"Moreover, while humans and most species are divided into only two sexes, mushrooms contain over 36,000 sexes."
clearly this will make romantic pairings complex-perhaps a circle is the only apprpriate arrangement?
Razzle Berry
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 11:50 AM
well then I guess you wouldn't really want to be gay.........haha
wizzar
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 | 12:45 PM
In the last month, my yard has grown a huge faerie ring with an approximate circumference of at least thirty feet. Never had it before. I've lived here 6 years and this is a first. Why now and why so HUGE?
