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Why do mushrooms grow in circles?

Question

Why do mushrooms grow in circles? You regularly see them in a neat pattern in the woods.
John-Paul, Stairminster

Answer

** Definitive **
Name: Daniel, Hounslow
Qualification: Park-keeper
Answer: It’s because one ring or mushrooms is one single fungus and they just happen to grow in a ring. In the middle of that ring would be the fungus.

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