For mycorrhizae fans

General Gardening
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Im a huge fan. Maybe even a groupie :crazy_face:

If you have seen Attenborough’s The Green Planet he shows that they communicate with each other… The whole doc is amazing.

"Fungi is able to link a whole group of trees through their root systems, creating a ‘wood wide web’ called the Mycorrhizal Network. Using this network, trees are able to pass nutrients, chemical and electrical signals to each other raising the alarm when being attacked. "

Someone recently called me out saying that PBS is biased… so theres that.

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Some interesting videos in this presentation showing flows across mycorrhizae networks.

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There is an entire chapter dedicated to this underground network in Peter Wohlleben’s 2015 book, “The Hidden Life of Trees.”

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Thanks for sharing the link.

I’m currently reading “Entangled Life” right now. It goes into this and talks about how even different types of species will be a part of the same fungal network, sharing resources… there is still so much for us to learn about soil and plant communication!

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For a novel that delves in, there is Understory. The least interesting part of it is the human characters, IMO. The descriptions of forest in it is a singular and great accomplishment.