Whats up with all these mushroom poisionings?

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Some experts day the mycelium from fungi can allow plants to communicate with each other, but I don't know how accurate that is. What I do know is it's vital to proper soil health.

Fungi are essential in soil biological function and its physical structure. I heard it claimed there are kilometres of hyphae in just a teaspoon of biologically healthy soil and these fungal strands serve as extensions to plant roots acting in a symbiotic relationship to allow plants to access far more water and nutrients than they are otherwise able to.

The mushrooms and toadstools we see are just the reproductive organs ('flowers') on a far larger organism. For this reason good observation of the environment from which you're harvesting mushrooms provides valuable information on what the fungi are living in symbiosis with in order to accurately identify them.