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Fantastic Fungi

These rotters, they can break downanything that's natural

These rotters, they can break down
anything that's natural

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These rotters,
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they can break down anything that's natural.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:08:35
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.
Anything that's hydrocarbon-based, - Fantastic Fungi 00:08
Anything that's hydrocarbon-based,
There were four piles saturated with diesel - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
There were four piles saturated with diesel
One was a control pile, - Fantastic Fungi 00:10
One was a control pile,
The fungi absorbs the oil, - Fantastic Fungi 00:09
The fungi absorbs the oil,
And then when we returned six weeks later, - Fantastic Fungi 00:04
And then when we returned six weeks later,
It was covered with hundreds of pounds - Fantastic Fungi 00:04
It was covered with hundreds of pounds
They were very large, - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
They were very large,
But something else happened, which was an epiphany in my life. - Fantastic Fungi 00:04
But something else happened, which was an epiphany in my lif...
Birds then came, bringing in seeds, - Fantastic Fungi 00:06
Birds then came, bringing in seeds,
Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of fungi. - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of fungi.
The bulk of the organism is growing underground - Fantastic Fungi 00:17
The bulk of the organism is growing underground
And that mass of threads is called a mycelium. - Fantastic Fungi 00:06
And that mass of threads is called a mycelium.
A mycelium has more networks - Fantastic Fungi 00:10
A mycelium has more networks
Just to give you an idea of how much fungi are in the forest, - Fantastic Fungi 00:09
Just to give you an idea of how much fungi are in the forest...
It's like a big web just growing through the forest. - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
It's like a big web just growing through the forest.
Mycelium that can grow out even just this big - Fantastic Fungi 00:09
Mycelium that can grow out even just this big
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,