NunyaBidness on Nostr: Once mycorrhizae fungi had forged algal slime into grasses, trees, and shrubs ...

Once mycorrhizae fungi had forged algal slime into grasses, trees, and shrubs (different kinds of farms) it was time to invade every available space on land. During the Devonian Period (after about 100 million years of fungi perfecting farm design) one meter tall trees exploded into 30 meter trees and they marched to every corner of every continent carrying with them the fungal bosses. The onslaught was so rapid and extensive that it plunged the world into Global Cooling because they vacuumed up so much CO2.

The engineering performed by something we walk over daily yet rarely notice built everything we see on land.

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Mycorrhizal fungi play in both the light and the mud. Part of this thing lives full time inside the plant where light and carbon are packed into lipids and sugars. The other part mines the earth for mineral and organic nutrients.

They also act as the Silk Road for trade between themselves and the plant as they exchange the nutrients for the carbon currencies along it.

In the most fundamental of ways the fungi turned algae into a farmable system. The plants we see today are nothing more than the fungal farmers' design that compels a space to be productive.

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