#ancientalliances — Public Fediverse posts

Good Morning everyone! 🍄

Sometimes you come across #fungus that you aren’t 100% sure about the #ID on but are too eye catching to not #photograph! These are some of the ones we’ve captured; aren’t they cool!

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#funfact | You can remove all the #birds and still have a #forest, but if you remove all the #fungi, the forest will #die.

Fungi help #breakdown the #materials in the stressed and dead #trees as part of a complex #nutrient cycle that is vital to #regeneration and a healthy forested #ecosystem

Without fungi to aid in #decomposition, all life in the #forest would soon be buried under a mountain of dead #plant matter.

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#funfact | #Fungi were plants’ #root systems when plants couldn’t grow their own! 🍄

Fungi have #symbiotic relationships with plants, which almost all #plants depend on. These symbiotic fungi live in the plant’s #roots and lace out into the #soil, supplying the plant with #nutrients and also protecting the plant from #disease.

The plant, in exchange, #feeds the fungi with energy-containing compounds that it has made in #photosynthesis.

This #relationship is very ancient and really lies at the root of all recognisable #life on land. The ancestors of plants, which were freshwater #algae, would not have made it out of the water were it not for these ancient #alliances with their #fungal partners. 🌱

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