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Fig. 13.1. Colony morphology and network architecture for different species of saprotrophic basidiomycetes. A–F Mycelial systems of Resinicium bicolor (A), Phanerochaete velutina (B), Hypholoma fasciculare (C), Coprinus picaceous (D) and Phallus impudicus(E, F) growing from wood blocks of 2 cm side in 24×24 cm trays of compressed non-sterile soil to illustrate the range of network architecture shown by different species. Photos courtesy of G. Tordoff

Network Organisation of Mycelial Fungi, M. Fricker, L. Boddy, D. Bebber, 2007

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The mycelial matrix In their literal and metaphorical manifestations, mycelia eclipse even their remarkable reproductive structures. Scaffolds of mycelia connect species, ecosystems, landscapes, life. Coursing through soils, radiating unseen, vast mycelial wefts support the warps of terrestrial ecosystems and the very ground on which humans tread oblivious. Of fungi, Rachel Carson wrote, ‘we know too little of the threads that bind the soil organisms to each other and the world’. Yet, fungal mycelia mirror the organisation and behaviour of human societies.

Alison Pouliot, Allure of Fungi