Wood Wide Web - Networking Underground

Beneath the ground extends an immense intraconnectivity between mycelium and vegetal beings, allowing them to function as information traverses an entire biome in seconds.

Below the surface, the forest is threaded with contact. Fungal filaments spread through the soil, wrapping around roots, weaving them into a living circuit. Sugars, minerals, chemical cues. The trees depend on it. The youngest roots tap into the network to find what they can’t reach on their own. Old trees release excess carbon and nutrients, not out of intention but function.

Fungi take their cut, trade it along, keep the current moving. It’s collaboration without choice. The soil holds this quiet economy. Nothing wasted, nothing still. Rot becomes food, food becomes structure, structure breaks down again. Signals travel as gradients, molecules sliding through the dark. A warning, a need, an exchange. What looks like separation above ground — trunks, species, distance — is only surface detail. Underneath, it’s one continuous system adjusting itself. The forest doesn’t organize. It connects, reacts, adapts. Everything living is also listening.