Neither plant nor animal, fungi are found throughout the earth, air and our bodies, and can survive in deep space. They can digest plastic, explosives, pesticides and crude oil. They can be microscopic, yet are also the largest organisms ever recorded.
They have no brain but can solve problems and manipulate animal behaviour, turning ants into their zombie slaves. Their psychedelic properties have been proven to alleviate a number of mental illnesses.
The discovery that they connect plants in underground networks, the ‘Wood Wide Web’, is transforming the way we understand ecosystems. Yet over ninety percent of their species remain undocumented.
In conversation with David Bramwell, Merlin Sheldrake – biologist, mycologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures – will share his knowledge, passion and some of the mind-boggling facts about an organism we are only just beginning to understand.
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