Fungi

Mushrooms are marvellous – especially those you can’t eat, or even see. When you dig into the world of mycorrhizae – fine, hair-like filaments of fungus that attach themselves to the roots of plants and trees – you will be amazed. These mushroom fibres reach out hundreds or thousands of times the length of one tree root, sourcing water and essential nutrients for the plant. They also form a vast underground communications network – the Wood Wide Web – that allow trees to alert each other to threats and provide intensive care to ailing trees or vulnerable offspring, like an intravenous drip boosting nutrients.

— Wayne Visser

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