As April showers bring forth May flowers, so autumn showers bring forth September mushrooms. In damp fields and moist, leaf-carpeted woods, their sudden, elfin appearance causes surprise and mystification, except to those who know that down out of sight the white, webby threads of mycelium have been growing slowly for months, sometimes for years, and that the now fast-expanding fruiting bodies were ready in the “button” stage long ago.
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