Guide to Fairy Ring
Fairy Circle, Elf Circle or Pixie Ring
A Fairy Ring is actually a ring or an arc of mushrooms. The mushrooms will grow ten meters in diameter while it seeks food from the underground earth. Mainly found in forested areas but often appear in grasslands or rangelands as well. Most identify the rings in a necrtoticzone or dead grass, or even by discovering a ring of dark grass. The fairy part of fairy ring comes from the fairy fungus mycelium that is present in the ring.
There are two types of fairy ring fungus. That is that are most commonly found and recognized. Tethered, which are rings found in the woods, formed by mycorrhizal fungi living in commensalism with trees, and Free rings that are found in the meadow because they are not connected with other organisms. Meadow mushrooms are saprotrophic.
When the ring is growing fast, and abundantly this is calvatia cyathiformis.
When the ring is withering away this is clitocybe gigantea.
About 40 to 60 kinds of mushrooms and grow in the ring pattern.
The most popular to you would be the edible Scotch bonnet (Marasmius oreades), or as it is most often called the Fairy Ring Champion.
Here is a list of species for the Fairy Ring.
List of species
- Amanita muscaria[4]
- Calocybe gambosa[5]
- Clitocybe dealbata[6]
- Clitocybe geotropa[7]
- Clitocybe nebularis
- Clitocybe rivulosa[6]
- Chlorophyllum molybdites
- Chlorophyllum rhacodes
- Entoloma sinuatum[8]
- Gomphus clavatus
- Leucopaxillus giganteus[9]
- Marasmius oreades
- Sarcodon imbricatus[10]
- Tricholoma pardinum[11]
This is the scientific belief.
There is however a more imaginative belief out there in the world.
In Europe the Fairy Rings have many names.
In France, ronds de sorciers "sorcerers' rings".
In German, hexenringe "witches' rings".
Probably more familiar to the common person would be the Celtic belief of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales which is the idea that fairy rings are created from the actual dancing of fairies and elves dancing.
It was said that anyone who stepped into a Fairy ring would die a young age. Or if you where a wrongful person, such as a thief or murderer you would be hung.
There you have it folks. What is a Fairy Ring? I guess the only person who can answer that question for you is you! What do you believe in? Scientific facts or the world of magic and mystery?
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