Elderflower’s story of the Together Trees in Father of the Bridlewood gives me an excuse to fact-check a science story that I have been meaning to look into for a while. She says, “Together Trees communicate and connect magically to each other through their roots underground.” This sounds like something that has featured in quite a few books and documentaries in recent years—the idea that threads of fungi connect tree roots underground and allow plants to exchange nutrients and

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