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Mycelium is the part of the fungus that grows underground in thread-like formations.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
From these roots, a fungal network laced out into the soil and around the roots of nearby trees. Without this fungal web my tree would not exist. Without similar fungal webs no plant would exist anywhere. All life on land, including my own, depended on these networks.
Merlin Sheldrake • Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Mycelium describes the most common of fungal habits, better thought of not as a thing but as a process: an exploratory, irregular tendency.
Merlin Sheldrake • Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Fungi are in between animals and plants. Their cell walls are made of chitin—a substance never found in plants—which makes them more like insects.
Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: The International Bestseller
MOST MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS grow by laying down new layers of cells.
Cells divide to make more cells which then divide again. A liver is made by piling liver cells on top of liver cells. The same goes for a muscle or a carrot. Hyphae are different; they grow by getting longer. Under the right conditions, a hypha can prolong itself indefinitely.