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These mushrooms have appear in a circle around this tree (gleditsia triacanthos). Any ideas why they seem to like this patch? After the last mow they haven’t come back in quite as much of a complete circle, but they were previously most of the way round. 

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Looks like mycelium to me. Those dark green bits of grass will have a lot of organic matter in the soil, this goes white with the mycelium fungus, the soil stops taking in moisture and the grass dies.

The only way of getting rid of it is to dig it out and replace the soil/grass.

Try cutting in to the soil and see if it is white 1-3" down.

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4 minutes ago, spudulike said:

Looks like mycelium to me. Those dark green bits of grass will have a lot of organic matter in the soil, this goes white with the mycelium fungus, the soil stops taking in moisture and the grass dies.

The only way of getting rid of it is to dig it out and replace the soil/grass.

Try cutting in to the soil and see if it is white 1-3" down.

Steve , everyone knows its to do with the fairys  🙂

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I'd leave it alone as it may be mycorrhizal, living in mutually beneficial association with tree roots, providing essential atmospheric nitrogen fixing supplied to the tree in return for sugars. I'd take my cue from the condition of the tree crown. If it's doing well, it's probably becasue of instead of despite the fungus. One of the worst things for a tree is grass all around it. Grass is allelopathic.

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I mikght have to back-pedal a bit on my comments. Gleditisia is a member of the genus FAbaceae which usually (but not always) has root nodules housing bacteria that can fix atmospheric nitrogen. So there could be something more complex going on. Anyway, if the tree's well the tree's well. The pattern looks like it's following shallow  roots and lusher grass.

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