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The Mycorrhizal fungi also function as a communication pathway that allows connected plants to share chemical information—for example, a chemical warning that aphids are on the move—with each other.

The East Coast of the United States used to be home to huge forests of giant chestnut trees, the “redwoods of the East.” They are all gone now, felled by a fungus.

A fungus can theoretically live forever as long as it has food to grow on, which is why one of the oldest and largest organisms on Earth is a fungus that lives on the top of a mountain in Oregon.