trying to help my friend solve her gaden problem
must admit it looks amazing - she has a "fairy Ring" of mushrooms which she said grew for a small circle and now stretches round most of her lawn
has anyone managed to successfully get rid of one??
I don't know about getting rid of them but from where I work I overlook our local rugby field and they have scores of them over the pitches. As I'm on night duty I watch the local peeps in the know picking bags full of the mushrooms, later in the year............hmmmm must remember to take some bags to work!
The magisc mushrooms I seem to remember didn't grow in circles ;D
XX Jeannine
If you get rid of a fairy ring you get rid of the fairies. :o Not always formed by edible mushrooms.
The football field sounds as it it had a dressing of spend mushroom compost.
Quote from: Digeroo on April 21, 2011, 07:04:25
If you get rid of a fairy ring you get rid of the fairies. :o Not always formed by edible mushrooms.
The football field sounds as it it had a dressing of spend mushroom compost.
yeah Ive read that too .. not all are edible :-X
must say it does look very cool though
I think what people normally mean by the Fairy ring mushroom is what myclogists call the Fairy Ring Champignon - Marasmius oreades - which is edible. It can be confused with Clitocybe rivulosa which also grows in rings & is deadly poisonous. Of course as digeroo points out, several other mushrooms & toadstools make fairy rings.
I strongly recommend Roger Phillips "Mushrooms" book as a good starter. Lots of beautiful pictures.
Either way, lovely to look at & personally I can't think of a reason that would make me want to remove it.