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Mushrooms growing round plants

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WobblyLondoner · 25/05/2022 21:44

These mushrooms have appeared a few times in a large container. I suppose they could be from the compost (a pest free brand I've not use before - Sylvagrow) or have come with the flowers (bought fairly recently). Can I ignore them or should I try to get rid of them?

Mushrooms growing round plants
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Justcallmebebes · 25/05/2022 22:04

Watching as my friend has the same thing. She's using a new organic compost

MereDintofPandiculation · 26/05/2022 09:20

Ignore them. They’re unlikely to be feeding on the plant and may even be beneficial. When I started gardening in the 1960s, orchids were thought to be really special because they needed to interact with a fungus in the soil to get the nutrients they needed but couldn’t extract for themselves. Now it’s realised that over 95 per cent of plant families form similar relationships with fungi.

you wont get rid of the fungus anyway. The “mushroom” is just the fruiting body. The main fungus is tiny threads “microrhiza” running throughout the compost.

purplesequins · 26/05/2022 09:21

ignore them.
fungus spores are all around us and they theive on rich organic dead material i.e. compost.
they will not do any harm.

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