TheWoodWideWeb

Created for the April Monthly Muse - Week 3 - Severed /Connected

Journaling:
It is well known and documented that mycorrhizal networks are connected to and communicate with trees via the tree roots. Some scientists believe trees are able to communicate with one another via the “wood wide web” through their fungal partners. Chemicals taken up by the fungi at the roots of one tree travel along the mycorrhizal network to other trees. In this sense, the fungal and root connections and interactions resemble neuronal communication to other cells using neurotransmitters. An entire mycorrhizal network can consist of one single fungi. When severed, the fungi will continue to grow and exist. The rapid communication from one end of a hypha to other leads some scientist to believe fungi can communicate with itself via electrical impulses. Again, like a human neuron. Mycorrhizal networks not only link trees but exist in symbiotic relationships with many plant species transferring water, carbon, nitrogen, and minerals within the network.

Created with:
Rachel Jefferies - We Are Connected, Stay Curious, Step by Step, and Stop & Look Around
Lynn Grieveson - Forage
Rebecca McMeen - Fern Collages