A neat indicant of land and plant health is the appearance of fungus in a lawn . The fruit bodies of an important belowground residential area , they often appear in the declension after we ’ve stopped mowing . Many ( if not all ) of these fungous specie are mycorrhizal , which imply they create a fine meshing of rootlike structures that serve as a beneficial link between plant life root word and soil nutrients . Once they have inoculated open roots , they increase water intake , increase nutritious uptake , and forbid pathogen from colonize roots .
If you do n’t like the looking of these fungus kingdom ( I think they are lovely ) , you’re able to pluck them off and toss them into the compost spate or a mulched seam . But unless you are a cultivate mycologist , do n’t eat them !
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Contributing editor Linda Chalker - Scott is a professor of horticulture and an elongation specializer at Washington State University in Puyallup , Washington .
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