Not a striking or spectacular fungus, but accommodating and well mannered. My mower damaged the grass, but the fungus growing on a surface root, must have grown quickly, after mowing. Is this a common place event?_3150046 sized.jpg
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Not a striking or spectacular fungus, but accommodating and well mannered. My mower damaged the grass, but the fungus growing on a surface root, must have grown quickly, after mowing. Is this a common place event?_3150046 sized.jpg
Maybe it was there before you mowed and it was lucky that the mower height wasn't lower?
Some fungi are very fast growing, but not the woody ones like that. It would have been there before you mowed and maybe grew a little bit afterwards.
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Mark and Steve, you do not mention the live blade of grass which appears to be embedded in the fungus, so I presume that this is not an unusual occurrence. Perhaps the blade of grass found a crack in the fungus and grew through it, and later the fungus healed the crack as it appears to have done on the opposite side.
Or maybe the fungi just formed around the blade of grass?
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That is what it looked like to me, but I thought it improbable.
It does look strange, but the improbable is the right answer. The fungi grows around the grass.
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Thank you Steve, my mystery solved. Now that I am looking more closely at fungi, I may see it again.
cheers marty.
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