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Name: Brandon
Status: student
Grade: 6-8
Location: MN
Country: N/A
Date: 1/27/2005
Question:
Why do mushrooms grow in circles and what dose it have to do with the hyphae in the ground.

Replies:
Mushroom grow outward in a circle or "ring" in search of food.

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/mole00/mole00341.htm

http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/mushroomcircles.html

Anthony Brach Ph.D.


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