Introducing you to the real World Wide Web, Miscelia. While mushrooms might be the most familiar part of a fungus, most of their bodies are made up of a mass of thin threads, known as a mycelium. As a mycelium grows out into a substrate it excretes enzymes at the tips of its hyphae that digest the substrate into a form that can be absorbed by the fungus. The more nutrients are in the substrate, the more branches the mycelia forms to take advantage of the food source. They also serve as an information superhighway that allows plants to communicate and help each other out acting as an underground internet, linking the roots of different plants. By linking to the fungal network they can help out their neighbours by sharing nutrients and information – or sabotage unwelcome plants by spreading toxic chemicals through the network. The more we learn about this network, the more our ideas about plants have to change. Trees and plants aren't just sitting there quietly growing as most of us would care to believe. #growninhaiti #miscelia #miscelium #fungi #worldwideweb #fungalnetwork #decomposition #connected #haiti #ayiti #organic #soil #underground #network #permaculture https://www.instagram.com/p/BrxjHv0jibI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nek34tx0e7uc