And it’s not just trees that reveal bursts of colour in a woodland. Get a little closer and you’ll see flashes of white, yellow, purple and red clustered around the base of living trees or lining trunks of dead ones on the woodland floor – fabulous fungi! Well, more likely what you will see on the surface is a mushroom or toadstool. The fruiting body of the fungus is called the mushroom (sometimes called toadstool, usually when referring to poisonous mushrooms), whereas the entire organism – including the roots we can’t see – is called the fungus.
Trees and fungi have a very important relationship, in which they both support each other and, in turn, the long-term health of the woodland. Fungi feed on the decaying plant matter that litters the woodland floors in autumn, and help recycle those nutrients back into the soil to aid tree growth. Fungi also provide food for a wide variety of insects, from tiny beetles to large slugs; these insects are then eaten by other wildlife like hedgehogs, squirrels and all sorts of woodland birds.
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