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Shark skin macro....evolution is the greatest engineer EVER

mycelium und mycorrhiza




the (mostly)invisible network being, with the temperatures up I smell it, 'goodmorning friend' as I'm sure its a bigger entity than me and walking in the woods it's everywhere,
https://mushroomwave.wikispaces.com/Myc ... Picture%21
the mycelium, which is an underground network of rootlike fibers that can stretch for miles. [] calls mycelia the “grand disassemblers of nature” because they break down complex substances into simpler components. For example, some fungi can take apart
the hydrogen-carbon bonds that hold petroleum products together. Others have shown the potential to clean up nerve-gas agents, dioxins, and plastics. They may even be skilled enough to undo the ecological damage pollution has wrought.

Since reading Mycelium Running, I’ve begun to consider the possibility that mycelia know something we don’t. [Stamets] believes they have not just the ability to protect the environment but the intelligence to do so on purpose. His theory stems in part from the fact that mycelia transmit information across their huge networks using the same neurotransmitters that our brains do: the chemicals that allow us to think
http://peakenergy.blogspot.fr/2008/07/n ... igent.html

Orchid mycorrhizae are symbiotic relationships between the roots of plants of the family Orchidaceae and a variety of fungi. All orchids are myco-heterotrophic at some point in their life cycle. Orchid mycorrhizae are critically important during orchid germination, as orchid seed has virtually no energy reserve and obtains its carbon from the fungal symbiont. Many adult orchids retain their fungal symbionts, although the benefits to the adult photosynthetic orchid and the fungus remain largely unexplored.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhiza

The Voynich Manuscript is fascinating. You can get high-resolution PDFs of each page online. Here are my favorites:

I love seeing the Fibonacci, fractals, etc... manifest throughout the natural world.

and we sooooooo misunderstand plants, the chemical communication between like species and even other species is sooooo fascinating

i mean there are plants that warn others of their kind when they have detected a certain insect and the other plants start releasing chemical irritants to that specific insect so awesome!! !

we have so much more to learn!

I think after the into, it's a lady speaking to a group at some University, on the U.S. West coast I think.