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Mycelium that can grow out even just this big
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Fantastic Fungi

Mycelium that can grow outeven just this big can have trillions, literallytrillions, of...

Mycelium that can grow out
even just this big can have trillions, literally
trillions, of end branchings

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Mycelium that can grow out even just this big
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can have trillions, literally trillions, of end branchings.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
51
Timestamp in Movie
00:11:18
Uploaded
Jun 13, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Artemis Rising,Diamond Docs,Moving Art

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Movie Summary

Fantastic Fungi is a descriptive time-lapse journey about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago.
Trees are communicating, using the mycelium as pathways. - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
Trees are communicating, using the mycelium as pathways.
In other words, one tree can swap nutrients with another tree, - Fantastic Fungi 00:08
In other words, one tree can swap nutrients with another tre...
So we often think of kin recognition as an animal behavior. - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
So we often think of kin recognition as an animal behavior.
Well, we never thought that plants could do that, - Fantastic Fungi 00:07
Well, we never thought that plants could do that,
So these mother trees recognize their kin - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
So these mother trees recognize their kin
The mother tree and the baby seedlings are sending signals, - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
The mother tree and the baby seedlings are sending signals,
When they're connected together - Fantastic Fungi 00:07
When they're connected together
If she knows that there's pests around, and that she's under danger, - Fantastic Fungi 00:09
If she knows that there's pests around, and that she�...
I do hug trees occasionally. I do confess to that, - Fantastic Fungi 00:06
I do hug trees occasionally. I do confess to that,
Damn, we got a two-for-one on that one. - Fantastic Fungi 00:04
Damn, we got a two-for-one on that one.
Cutting down these trees and we're going to let them rot, - Fantastic Fungi 00:06
Cutting down these trees and we're going to let them ro...
We're letting them rot with shiitake mushrooms, - Fantastic Fungi 00:06
We're letting them rot with shiitake mushrooms,
September of '74, - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
September of '74,
I went up to visit him one weekend, - Fantastic Fungi 00:06
I went up to visit him one weekend,
He says, "What are those?" - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
He says, "What are those?"
These are old red belted polypores. - Fantastic Fungi 00:04
These are old red belted polypores.
This is a delicious shrimp russula mushroom, - Fantastic Fungi 00:07
This is a delicious shrimp russula mushroom,
It's rare in science you have such powerful amateurs. - Fantastic Fungi 00:06
It's rare in science you have such powerful amateurs.
The meaning of the word "amateur" is a lover, - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
The meaning of the word "amateur" is a lover,
And he's proven that amateurs can do credible, important research. - Fantastic Fungi 00:06
And he's proven that amateurs can do credible, importan...