Most orchid species have a symbiotic relationship with the natural fungi found in their roots. The plants provide the fungi with sugar through photosynthesis and the orchids receive important water ...

Bacteria pitch in, some sliding along strands of fungi to get deeper into the log. Termites alert their colony mates, which gather en masse to gobble up wood. Bit by bit, deadwood is decomposed, ...

This latest study wanted to investigate what happened when the mycelial network of the wood-decaying fungus Phanerochaete ...

Fungi hyphae form mycelium that connects trees and plants in an underground fungal highway — called the wood-wide web — transporting nutrients and sending danger signals. Otzi, the 45,000-year ...

In a small pond near the waterfall, she found a fungus growing on a submerged piece of wood. New findings reveal that molecules produced by this fungus showed antimicrobial activity against ...

But appropriate fungi only occur when there is fallen wood and only in certain stages of the decomposition process. In other words, the orchids become parasitic only when they can, not whenever ...

Split gills—mushrooms that grow on rotting wood—seemed to have the most complex speech patterns, he adds. Adamatsky tells Newsweek that the fungi in a network may use these spike trains to indicate ...

But appropriate fungi only occur when there is fallen wood and only in certain stages of the decomposition process. In other words, the orchids become parasitic only when they can, not whenever ...

It occurs when the temperature is slightly below freezing and the presence of a particular fungus in rotting wood produces thin strands of ice which resemble hair or candy floss. Ranger Nick Allen ...