There were also harmful mushrooms before. But now climate change and globalization favor extremely aggressive species against which the trees can hardly defend themselves.
What would the forest be without mushrooms! Stone mushroom, chanterelle, parasol – every copy of a treasure for the finder. It doesn’t hurt the forest if we take the best pieces home with us. Because we only harvest the fruit bodies alias “mushroom”, and they are hardly significant in terms of quantity. The actual mushroom body lives on. It penetrates the forest floor with its delicate hyphen, envelops the finest roots and pulls from one tree to the next. So narrowly roots and hyphen are overgrown that there is their own name for this: Mycorrhizen, in German mushroom roots.
Mycorrhizen are the life insurance of the trees. Because mushroom hyphians are umpteen times longer and much thinner than any pure plant root – and can therefore
Peter Wohlleben tells the life of a 250-year-old beech-exciting, scientifically sound and rousing like an autobiography of nature itself.
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Peter Wohlleben tells the life of a 250-year-old beech-exciting, scientifically sound and rousing like an autobiography of nature itself.