FungiLovers: Mushrooms on the mound

Like other plants, mushrooms thrive when they get enough water around them. Moist soil is the perfect place for fungi to multiply. The rainy season is good support for mushrooms to grow. They grow when the rainy season arrives in places that never grow during the summer.

Last Tuesday, I found brown mushrooms growing in my backyard while I was out for a walk. I saw a bunch of mushrooms growing on a mound of moss-covered earth. The mound looked like an abandoned termite nest, and mushrooms had grown from its remains. They looked beautiful when they had just bloomed, with cap still wet from the rain last night.