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Fungi
Fungi break down and destroy dead plants and trees. And in the process, they release nutrients, so plants and trees can grow.
There’s much more to fungi than the familiar mushrooms and toadstools. As Ari Daniel Shapiro reports, fungi are both the great creators and the great destroyers of the plant kingdom.