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Mycelium in sentence

35 examples of Mycelium in a sentence

One feature of fungi is that they cannot move and only grow by extension to form a sophisticated network, the mycelium.
But as grandpa dug through that forest floor, I became fascinated with the roots, and under that, what I learned later was the white mycelium and under that the red and yellow mineral horizons.
The mushrooms, though, are just the tip of the iceberg, because coming out of those stems are fungal threads that form a mycelium, and that mycelium infects and colonizes the roots of all the trees and plants.
The web is so dense that there can be hundreds of kilometers of mycelium under a single footstep.
And not only that, that mycelium connects different individuals in the forest, individuals not only of the same species but between species, like birch and fir, and it works kind of like the Internet.
I want to present to you a suite of six mycological solutions, using fungi, and these solutions are based on mycelium.
The mycelium infuses all landscapes, it holds soils together, it's extremely tenacious.
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.
My foot is covering approximately 300 miles of mycelium.
And notice that as the mycelium grows, it conquers territory and then it begins the net.
I've been a scanning electron microscopist for many years, I have thousands of electron micrographs, and when I'm staring at the mycelium, I realize that they are microfiltration membranes.
We exhale carbon dioxide, so does mycelium.
I first proposed, in the early 1990s, that mycelium is Earth's natural Internet.
When you look at the mycelium, they're highly branched.
The mycelium is sentient.
It's possible because the mycelium produces oxalic acids, and many other acids and enzymes, pockmarking rock and grabbing calcium and other minerals and forming calcium oxalates.
So, fungi and mycelium sequester carbon dioxide in the form of calcium oxalates.
There were four piles saturated with diesel and other petroleum waste: one was a control pile; one pile was treated with enzymes; one pile was treated with bacteria; and our pile we inoculated with mushroom mycelium.
The mycelium absorbs the oil.
So, the mycelium becomes saturated with the oil, and then, when we returned six weeks later, all the tarps were removed, all the other piles were dead, dark and stinky.
We submitted over 300 samples of mushrooms that were boiled in hot water, and mycelium harvesting these extracellular metabolites.
I actually chased the mycelium, when it stopped producing spores.
And I got my daughter's Barbie doll dish, I put it right where a bunch of carpenter ants were making debris fields, every day, in my house, and the ants were attracted to the mycelium, because there's no spores.
The seeds then are mothered by this mycelium.
I add mycelium to it, and then I inoculate the corncobs.
The mushrooms then are harvested, but very importantly, the mycelium has converted the cellulose into fungal sugars.
I think engaging mycelium can help save the world.
These fungi have countless branching, thread-like hyphae that together make up the mycelium.
The mycelium spreads across a much larger area than the tree root system and connect the roots of different trees together.