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Video description: A short animated and narrated video (1.47), from the BBC, introducing mycorrhizal networks.
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While the odd mushroom has popped up in our garden, it seems that fungal networks are most obviously at work in forests in the communication between trees. However, scientists believe that most plant life in the world lives in relation to fungi in the soil (McClenaghan 2019). I can’t help but wonder if the nearby (and many) olive trees are commiserating with one another, and if Amandine’s relatives might somehow support xem through the ‘wood wide web’ (Rothschild 2017) once we find her an appropriate spot in our garden.
Image description: An olive grove on a sunny day.
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In looking at a survey of scientific literature on these ‘fungal-root’ systems…
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