Fungi have no body, they don’t possess boundaries - they meld into and through the world, interweaving with other organisms and extending themselves into others cells.
They are fluid and unfamiliar.

Stores unfold in subterranean networks across a microscopic version of the connections seen in the forests above ground. This network has come to be known as ‘the wood-wide web’.

Beneath every footstep in the forest are hundreds of kilometres of densely packed fungal threads that share nutrients and send warnings

Fungi are structural essentials in world making. They exist in all kinds of organisms, on surfaces, in and below the soil, in the air, in water, in deep ocean floors and inside solid rock.

Mycelium is the root network of mushrooms. It consists of spores, which seek nourishment in their surroundings. Spreading its tendrils radially in an expansive web below the ground. New shoots will sprout as the mycelium seeks new territory and weaves its web beyond the already established frontier.

‘The term ‘mycorrhiza’ is made from the Greek words for ‘fungus’ and ‘root’. It is itself a collaboration or entanglement; and as such a reminder of how language has its own sunken system of roots and hyphae, through which meaning is shared and traded.’*

*Rober MacFarlane, Underland

'Mycelium is ecological connective tissue, the living seam by which much of the world is stitched into relation. In school classrooms children are shown anatomical charts, each depicting different aspects of the human body. One chart reveals the body as a skeleton, another the body as a network of blood vessels, another the nerves, another the muscles. If we made equivalent sets of diagrams to portray ecosystems, one of the layers would show the fungal mycelium that runs through them. We would see sprawling, interlaced webs strung through the soil, through sulfurous sediments hundreds of meters below the surface of the ocean, along coral reefs, through plant and animal bodies both alive and dead.'

Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life