I was raking leaves and uncovered the little dudes in the picture. More raking showed they came up in a circle, like a fairy ring. My plant ID app says it’s called shaggy mane.  It’s also known as lawyer’s wig, but I will not be putting it on.  In a fit of optimistic ignorance, I took the pieces I’d accidentally raked and tossed them into one of my new terraforming beds with the fragrant sumac and the cardinal flower.  I muttered incantations about mycorrhizae, like that would make it so.

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