I washed the soil crumbs from the rest of the root tips. I’d never seen such a rich bouquet of fungus—certainly not this brilliant a yellow, plus white and pink too—each color wrapped around a separate tip, bearded with gossamer. Roots need to reach far and in awkward spaces for nutrients. But why were so many fungal threads not only sprouting from the root tips but blazing with a palette like this? Was each color a different fungal species? Did each do a different job in the soil?
