White patches forming in my wood chips

Over the last few years I have noticed some changes in my mulch. I start to see white filaments forming on the wood chips. This stuff is mycelium as far as I know. And it's the beginning the decomposition process.

This stuff is binding woodchips together. And in some cases I find patches a few feet across. Especially if I dug into the wood chips.

I wonder what kind of mushrooms will form from them. When they are stressed they will fruit.

In a few years when more of the wood chips break down. I look forward to testing my soil.

Where I find these patches I find happy plants. So seems it does not affect them in negative way.

As I get different kinds of trees in the form of wood chips. I should have different fungus growing in them. Some wood loving mushrooms prefer certain types of wood.

Recently there were some fruiting bodies forming. Not sure what kind they are though.

The mushrooms only lasted a day and will break down back into the soil letting it before food for the plants around the wood chips.

Maybe it was the cooler weather that triggered the mushrooms to grow.. not really sure.

Or maybe it was the recent rains that caused the mycelium to fruit. But regardless I got to see them form before they disappeared back into the mulch they grew from.