![]() The strength of this story isn’t only in the discoveries she makes, although they are so fascinating it would be easy to dismiss them as fantasy. ![]() ![]() In carrying out these initial studies, she goes on to discover that trees communicate underground through a complex web of fungi, and at the centre of this web, an individual known as the “mother tree” helps to coordinate a powerful network that heals, feeds and sustains the other members of the forest. The author takes us through her career in the forests of North America, working on plantations to identify links between crop yields, herbicide use and species diversity. Her research in underground tree communication through a “wood wide web” of mycorrhizal fungi will be familiar to readers of Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Treesand Robert Macfarlane’s Underland, while one of the characters in Richard Powers’s The Overstorywas heavily inspired by Simard’s life and work in forest ecology. In Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard demonstrates how storytelling can ignite something science alone cannot. ![]()
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