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In many ways, mushrooms are good for the planet and the ecosystem. Valuable for preserving trees from global warming or for depolluting the soil, they could also soon become a green textile.
Mushrooms are endowed with unsuspected powers. Millions of species on Earth are closely scrutinized by filmmakers, scientists or start-ups. Preserving trees from global warming, depolluting the soil, becoming a green textile are all benefits for the planet that the mushroom allows. Some have made a specialty of flushing them out in the forests. “It’s puffball, pet-de-loup. There, if I press the mushroom, it’s extraordinary“, warns François Martin, doctor in plant physiology, as a brown cloud escapes.
A network of underground filaments
Their greatest secrets are sometimes hidden underground. “In fact, the important part of mushrooms is not what you pick, it’s really this world, this underground, invisible network. You really have to imagine a network, a carpet, a web of mushroom filaments, which develop there, under our feet.“, continues the doctor.
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