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This was taken last year, but I'd appreciate an explanation as to why they grow like this. This was one of many 'mushroom circles' that we encountered on a walk from St Govans Car Park to the Stack Rocks Car Park on the Castlemartin Firing Range. They ranges from half a metre to at least 5 metres in diameter.

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In English folklore, mushroom rings were known as fairy or pixie rings. These were caused by the wee folks dancing in a circle. As they wore down the grass, they left a circular pattern of basidia (a type of mushroom) behind. Faerie Ring, Fairy Circle, Lichen Moss, Mushroom Ring, Fairy Ring, Mushroom Fungi, Alphonse Mucha, Fairy Dust, Fairy Land

The best known-and perhaps most inspired-literary mushroom of all is the one nibbled by Alice in her Adventures in Wonderland. Eating from one side of the mushroom makes her grow larger, eating from the other side makes her shrink. It's possible that author Lewis Carroll knew of the properties of Fly Agaric. One effect of this hallucinogenic fungus is to make objects appear larger or smaller in the user's eye. In recent times it's no surprise to find fungal references at "Hogwarts School of…

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