Aug 30, 2021
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
