A new book out this month re-opens the debate about the idea that mushrooms provide an internet that enables trees to “talk ” to each other. According to the German author, trees communicate via complex fungi networks that have been dubbed the wood wide web.
“ What we have found is that trees not only communicate via scent signals, but via a kind of internet. This runs through fungi which pervade the ground like a fibre optic network and essentially carry information from tree to tree.”
The book is called The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben. “One teaspoon of forest earth contains several kilometres worth of these flimsy filaments.” Makes you think doesn’t it? If you go down to the woods today….!