“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Wednesday, June 1, 2011

A Mushroomgraph of a Pine Tree

A rather too big pine tree was cut down at the back of my garden last year. Fungi have been eating the stump in various waves.

As the fungi digest the sugars in each ring of the tree, they grow a little bit. What results is a mushroomogram of the tree rings, a series of spreading fungi with rings, quite like the rings of the old tree. It's quite uncanny.

The fungi are fungipomorphizing the tree.

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