“… try to think your way into the main part of a fungus, the mycelium, a proliferating network of tiny white threads known as hyphae. Decentralised, inquisitive, exploratory and voracious, a mycelial network ranges through soil in search of food. It tangles itself in an intimate scrawl with the roots of plants, exchanging nutrients and sugars with them; it meets with the hyphae of other networks and has mycelial sex; messages from its myriad tips are reported rapidly across the whole network ...”

The quotation is from Frances Gooding's article “From its Myriad Tips”, London Review of Books, 20 May 2021. It inspired me to prepare a Presentation pack at the time, whose text is copied here. Read more