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Fungi

In Our Time: Science

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The Micorisal Fungi, Can Colonize Multiple Plants at the Same Time

Many of the fungi occur in soil, where they produce these vast networks of hype. But those hyphe are susceptible to attack by by animals that live in the soil. So many orchids have evolved away from photo synthesizing on their own. They're entirely dependent on carbon moving from a neighboring green plant via a common microisal network to facilitate their growth.

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