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mycorrhiza

Trees share vital goodies through a secret underground network

Brian Owens · April 14, 2016 ·

Call it the wood wide web. Although we think of trees as competing with each other for resources, we know from lab studies that they share information and nutrients underground.Trees of the same species growing close together will sometimes fuse their roots and exchange materials. And seedlings of different species can share nutrients via mycorrhiza, […]

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