The wood-wide web or the mycorrhizal network, as scientists
call it, is a vast system of root connections hidden beneath the trees that is
made up of the filaments of fungi growing in and around the plant’s roots
producing many of the forest mushrooms we enjoy. Providing more absorption for
the trees than the roots they grow on their own, mycorrhizal fungi dramatically
increase the plant’s water and mineral supply. The tree also makes and delivers
food to the fungus in this mutual give-take relationship. This fungal system is
so complex that it also serves as a conduit between trees, connecting acres to
one another.
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