See the gills (lamallae) on the bottom side of this mushroom. Each mushroom can produce millions spores. The spores can be down in depressions on the top of the mushroom caps. When it rains, a drop of water hits the depression loaded with spore and sends them out in every direction around the mushroom creating a ring of new mushrooms. In the middle ages, they use to call this phenomenon a "fairy ring."
Cup fungi also waiting for a drop of rain to splash out spores into the outside world.
Fungi are interesting organisms. I can't help but stop to admire them whenever I see them, whether in the backyard (two top pics) or in the woods (bottom two pics). Debbie and I spotted these cup fungi in the words today on our nature walk; while the gill fungi actually came up after a rain last summer.
See the gills (lamallae) on the bottom side of this mushroom. Each mushroom can produce millions spores. The spores can be down in depressions on the top of the mushroom caps. When it rains, a drop of water hits the depression loaded with spore and sends them out in every direction around the mushroom creating a ring of new mushrooms. In the middle ages, they use to call this phenomenon a "fairy ring."
Cup fungi also waiting for a drop of rain to splash out spores into the outside world.
Fungi are interesting organisms. I can't help but stop to admire them whenever I see them, whether in the backyard (two top pics) or in the woods (bottom two pics). Debbie and I spotted these cup fungi in the words today on our nature walk; while the gill fungi actually came up after a rain last summer. 
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