Roots turn into worlds under a microscope. I’ve spent weeks immersed in them, sometimes enthralled, sometimes frustrated. Put fresh, fine roots in a dish of water and you’ll see fungal hyphae stringing off them. Boil roots in dye, squash them onto a glass slide, and you’ll see an intertwining. Fungal hyphae fork and fuse and erupt within plant cells in a riot of branching filaments. Plant and fungus clasp one another. It’s difficult to imagine a more intimate set of poses.
How close is the relation between roots and mycelium
