Though no one may be around to hear when a tree falls in the forest, countless critters take note. Dormant fungi within the tree awaken to feast on it, joined by others that creep up from the soil.

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 ...

The appropriate fungi only occur around fallen wood and during certain stages of decomposition. So the orchids only become parasitic when they can–and are near the right wood–and not when they ...

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 ...

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 ...