Fungal Threads
When trees talk…
December 4, 2020Fungal threads link nearly every tree in a forest — even trees of different species. Carbon, water, nutrients, alarm signals and hormones can pass from tree to tree through these subterranean circuits.
Resources tend to flow from the oldest and biggest trees to the youngest and smallest. Chemical alarm signals generated by one tree prepare nearby trees for danger.
Photo: Brendan George Ko for The New York Times.
“Trees appear to communicate and cooperate through subterranean networks of fungi,” Ferris Jabr writes in the N.Y. Times Magazine.Resources tend to flow from the oldest and biggest trees to the youngest and smallest. Chemical alarm signals generated by one tree prepare nearby trees for danger.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/02/magazine/tree-communication-mycorrhiza.html