since fungi use asexual reproduction pretty frequently.--shanks

As do words. To prove a point, what's asexual reproduction got to do with a word of the day?--IP's response

The Michigan fungus in question is a fairy circle, a ring of mushrooms--the reproductive structures of a single, or "clonal" [nod to shanks emoticon] fungus. As the fungus exhausts trace elements in its substrate, it renders the substrate unsuitable to its growth. The fungus dies in the depleted substrate, but continues to grow outward in an ever-widening ring. The Michigan fairy circle is at least 100 miles in diameter and may be larger.

The segue was from Tuesday's word of the day, "pixilated" -from pixie, a mischievous fairylike creature.