Sentence examples for underground tree from inspiring English sources

"You could imagine the fungi themselves as forming a massive underground tree, or as a cobweb of fine filaments, acting as a sort of prosthesis to the trees, a further root system, extending outwards into the soil, acquiring nutrients and floating them back to the plants, as the plants fix carbon in their leaves and send sugar to their roots, and out into the fungi.

Bond was part of a recent initiative led by the African Centre for DNA Barcoding at the University of Johannesburg in which DNA from 1400 different woody species in southern Africa, including about 50 of the 200 known underground tree species that grow there, was analysed.

The fruit bodies of the saprobe typically grow in clusters on or near rotting hardwood tree stumps or underground tree roots.

The study, published earlier this year, found that the underground trees evolved surprisingly recently.

The research also unexpectedly showed underground trees didn't evolve just once.

Recent research into when and why these underground trees first evolved is starting to shed light on how the savannahs in which they live came into being.

Does the story of the underground trees provide hope that today's forests could similarly adapt to the threat posed by our actions?

There seems to have been a global trigger around 8 million years ago that led to an increase in wildfires, the spread of savannahs and the appearance of underground trees.

Mammals hop, burrow underground, climb trees, gallop, and fly.

But the underground savannah trees, sometimes called geoxylic suffrutices, are different.

One of the amazing things I saw in the Bay waters was what looked like underground birch trees, but in fact they were multiple water channels in the Bay.