Actually, mushrooms are the fruiting (flowers) of the underground mushroom. Mushrooms have under their shield fine 'tubes' or 'platelets' containing the microscopic traces with which the fungus propagates. From these spores grows the mushroom flake (mycelium). These are white threadlike organisms that live underground.

They are the main component of visible mushrooms that appear above ground under favourable conditions. In damp forests, the mycelium threads are found under rotting wood.

The mushroom can be found in the wet forest under rotten logs. Of some mushrooms, the mycelium grows in expanding circles, the so-called “coven of witches”, due to the death of the fungi in the center.

The 'Gloomy honey agary' (photo below) is a typical witch circle builder. For example, in the American state of Oregon, it was discovered that this fungus, in various places, grew seemingly in a straight line. Further examination of the various sites revealed, however, that this was in fact a giant organism, in the form of a nine-square kilometre coven. This 2400 year old 'Gloomy honey agary' (Armillaria ostoyae) has been declared the largest living organism on earth.

Some more pictures of curious mushrooms...

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