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OOPs, I just noticed something in the picture. See how the grass is a little greener where the mushrooms are? And how they seem to grow in a line curving a little to the left. I bet it's a remnant of an old fairy ring, which has nothing to do with the cedar.

A lot of mushrooms are Mycorrhizae fungus, meaning they live in symbiosis with a tree. This seems like one of those. They intermingle with the tree's rootsystem and exchange nutrients back and forth to each others mutual benefit. A lot of boletes are mycorrhizae scrooms, like Boletus elegans...