Mycellium connect individual trees and creates a flow of nutrients The mycorrhizal networks, sometimes referred to as wood wide web, are subterranean networks that connect individual plants through thread-like webs of hyphae known as mycellium. They can spread up to several kilometers in a woodland and thus creating an inter-connected flow of water, glucose, nutrients, minerals and allelochemicals among trees. Larger and older trees give away their additional nutrients, sometimes 20-80% to fungi, other trees, small plants or seedlings within this network. While the fungal partners in this network benefit from the glucose that they cannot produce themselves, they offer another type of contribution. They can absorb minerals from the rocks deep underground and these remain in the network available to the trees. When an old tree dies, it leaves all its nutrients to this network, which can then be absorbed by the other trees. These networks are also used for communication among trees in th
