The mycelium, in the right conditions, produces a mushroom it bursts through with such ferocity that it can break asphalt.

The interface between the plant and fungal partners in this association is between the roots of the plant and the mycelium of the fungus.

And then a delicate dance between dinner and death the mycelium is consumed by the ants, they become mummified, and, boing, a mushroom pops out of their head.

The identity of the fungus remains a mystery.

I actually chased the mycelium, when it stopped producing spores.

The mycelium is sentient.

So, why mycelium?

What is this mushroom?

The mycelium absorbs the oil.

A small piece of fungus is placed on this substrate.

And so we see a mushroom here sporulating.

We exhale carbon dioxide, so does mycelium.

The seeds then are mothered by this mycelium.

This is extremely rare fungus.

It's a mushroom exclusive to the old growth forest that Dioscorides first described in 65 A.D.

I add mycelium to it, and then I inoculate the corncobs.

Now, mycelium is an amazing material, because it's a self assembling material.

Jae Rhim Lee My mushroom burial suit

These conditions are conducive to the growth of the fungus, which dessiccates the grape and concentrates the sugars inside.

In 2011, a newly described species of mushroom, Spongiforma squarepantsii , was named after the cartoon's title character.

The mycelium infuses all landscapes, it holds soils together, it's extremely tenacious.

The mycelium is producing enzymes peroxidases that break carbon hydrogen bonds.

I think engaging mycelium can help save the world.

Upon germination, a new haploid mycelium or sporangium is formed.

But here is a mushroom that's past its prime.

A fungus known as rust, or roya in Spanish, is attacking coffee plantations from Mexico to Peru.

They give rise to the trees, they create the debris fields that feed the mycelium.

And the spores are germinating, and the mycelium forms and goes underground.

The gardener nurses also cut pieces of mycelium for the other castes to eat.

This is my wife Dusty, with a mushroom called Fomitopsis officinalis Agarikon.

They live in a symbiotic relationship with a fungus belonging to the subphylum Basidiomycota.

So, this one mushroom, in particular, has drawn our interest over time.

This mushroom grows in Washington State, Oregon, northern California, British Columbia, now thought to be extinct in Europe.

In this electronic toy circuit, the mushroom body neurons are symbolized by the vertical bank of blue LEDs in the center of the board.

And notice that as the mycelium grows, it conquers territory and then it begins the net.

I want to present to you a suite of six mycological solutions, using fungi, and these solutions are based on mycelium.

We have now discovered that there is a multi directional transfer of nutrients between plants, mitigated by the mcyelium so the mycelium is the mother that is giving nutrients from alder and birch trees to hemlocks, cedars and Douglas firs.

We submitted over 300 samples of mushrooms that were boiled in hot water, and mycelium harvesting these extracellular metabolites.

The mushrooms then are harvested, but very importantly, the mycelium has converted the cellulose into fungal sugars.

And he says, the link to one site didn't just grow on the other page like a tree fungus.

Here you see a typical cucumber leaf that turned actually from green to black because of a black fungus, sooty mold, which is covering it.

I first proposed, in the early 1990s, that mycelium is Earth's natural Internet.

So I'm not sure if there are any in this photo, but I do know the fungus is down there.

They cut leaves to provide a substrate for the fungus farms which are their principal source of food.

Generating ethanol from cellulose using mycelium as an intermediary and you gain all the benefits that I've described to you already.