When I was reading "Finding the Mother Tree" by Suzanne Simard, I kept thinking about a fungus that is our guest every year. This is, apparently, a "mother mushroom". Our landscaping lady told me these are common around the stumps of oak trees. This one appears realliably every year. The premise of Simars book is that the "mother" trees and fungi create a domain of roots or mycelium to manage who has a chance within their domain by providing or denying support. In the case of this fungus, I agree. Attempts to garden in her domain are literally fruitless, and her progeny are thriving around her. The fungus starts out looking like a puffball, but in reality it hasn the hardness and texture of a bracket fungus.
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Oh yes! Our neighbor had a big oak tree and the same kind of 'shroom would appear each year near the base. We have some apple trees, and around one of them we get yummy morel mushrooms. But if you are a wee bit late on the harvest, they don't look so good.
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Here's the Mother Shroom a month later.
Michael Reese Much FRMS EMS Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
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That's fascinating information!
Nice images to go along
Nice images to go along