Peaceful Coexistence

[martycon]

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?121449

[Mark L]

Maybe it was there before you mowed and it was lucky that the mower height wasn't lower?

[Steve Axford]

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.

[martycon]

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.

[Mark L]

Or maybe the fungi just formed around the blade of grass?

[martycon]

That is what it looked like to me, but I thought it improbable.

[Steve Axford]

It does look strange, but the improbable is the right answer. The fungi grows around the grass.

[martycon]

Thank you Steve, my mystery solved. Now that I am looking more closely at fungi, I may see it again.
cheers marty.