Lisa Edelstein

I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!

American Actress

Michelle Paver

It's the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive.

British Novelist

Paul Stamets

Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded, poorly represented in the context of other sciences - ironic, as the very foundation of our ecosystems are directly dependent upon fungi, which ultimately create the foundation of soils.

American Scientist

Richard Harris

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.

Irish Actor

Rain Dove

My body is sometimes this thing I look at and think, 'What strange, alien thing grew around my consciousness?' It's like this weird fungus that's just there.

American Model

Fred Allen

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

American Comedian

E. O. Wilson

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

John Burnside

Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.

Scottish Writer

Jaime Lerner

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

Brazilian Politician

Adam Baldwin

I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.

American Actor

Though called a simple plant, fungi are not plants. They have a distinct kingdom.

Not a Plant

Fungi usually thrive in moist environments—think bathrooms, forests, and spoiled food.

Habitat Matters

Some fungus can be seen, like mushrooms, but others, like mold spores, are invisible to the naked eye.

Visible and Invisible

In a medical context, 'fungus' often implies an unwanted, pathogenic condition.

Medical Context

A fungal infection usually requires specific treatment, often with antifungal medication.

Treatment Required

Some fungal infections can be contagious and spread through direct contact or shared items.

Contagious Nature

 But what are they anyway, and are they actually bad for you? Those spots are evidence of an epic battle between plants and microbes. Like humans, plants coexist with billions of fungi and bacteria. Some of these microbes are beneficial to the plant, suppressing disease and helping it extract nutrients.

Are spotty fruits and...

 different bacteria that are now part of us and these altogether bacteria viruses and even fungi and other microbes are called the human microbiota so these microbes as I said live on every exposed body surface but here are some numbers it's estimated that in the gut

A lesson in Bacteria PIPE...

 and the fungus parasitizes its body to build a tall, thin stalk from its neck. Within several weeks, the stalk shoots off spores, which turn more ants into six-legged leaf-seeking zombies. One of humanity's most deadly assailants is a behavior-altering parasite,

How parasites change...

 hopefully unspoiled, thanks to preservatives. But what exactly are preservatives? How do they help keep food edible and are they safe? There are two major factors that cause food to go microbes and oxidation. Microbes like bacteria and fungi invade food

Are food preservatives...

 Now, we call this symbiosis a mycorrhiza, myco for fungus, rrhiza for root. So, the fungus and root get together, and they trade for mutual benefit. Now, all trees in all forests all over the world depend on these mycorrhizas for their very survival.

The networked beauty of...

 their eyes glaze over, and they think I'm a little crazy. So, I hope to pierce that prejudice forever with this group. We call it mycophobia, the irrational fear of the unknown, when it comes to fungi. Mushrooms are very fast in their growth.

6 ways mushrooms can...

 when it's inside of a cricket and that's when it knows, it can start developing. That's how the life cycle continues. This is an ant that has been infected by 'Ophiocordyceps'. And this fungus, it gets the ant to crawl up the stalk of a plant

Zombie Parasites PIPE Nat...

 Plants don't have to rely solely on those airborne broadcasts. Signals can travel below the soil surface, too. Most plants have a symbiotic relationship with fungi, which colonize the plants' roots and help them absorb water and nutrients.

Can plants talk to each...

 Natural biofilms are like miniature jungles filled with many kinds of microbes from across the web of life. Bacteria and archaea mingle with other microbes like algae, fungi, and protozoa,

The microbial jungles...

 fungi spread across the world other creatures such as wasps moths and caterpillars have also fallen prey to these parasites ants are another notable victim of these killer fungi

Fungus