A favourite book title!
Fungi and other microorganisms break down the rotten logs. A giant web, branching in all directions, like mycelium. Cellulose...... a long chain made by nature.
Orange polypore.
The first clumsy attempt at making rope, from a weedy looking plant. It got thinner and thinner. A bracket fungi found on a rotten log. It's tough and leathery.
Beautiful Japanese rope used in bamboo fencing.
Water hyacinth cord.
Hemp cord.
Thoughts of branching of algae and coral have changed to thoughts of branching mycelium.
