Entangled Life

A deep dive into Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. What you pick up in the forest is not a fungus: it is its fruiting body, the visible and short lived fraction of an organism whose essential part lives underground as a permanent network. Fungal species are estimated at between 2.2 and 3.8 million, of which roughly 6 % have been described, six to ten times more species than there are plants. Mycelium is thought to make up between a third and a half of the living mass of a soil, and a single gram of earth can hold from one hundred to ten thousand meters of filaments laid end to end. More than 90 % of plant species live in mycorrhizal associatio… Read the full summary and listen to more books on Synopsia: https://synopsia.app