Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees

Page numbers in parentheses. Italics are my own questions of the text.

Chapter 8 Notes

Chapter 7 Notes

Chapter 6 Notes

Chapter 5 Notes

Chapters 3 & 4 Notes

Chapter 2 Notes

Foreword, Introductions, and Chapter 1 Notes

Chapter 9 United We Stand Divided We Fall

different species fight for light and water

• tap into damp ground (49)

• roots grow fine hairs to increase surface are

• suck up as much water as possible

more is better

• trees pair with fungi

• have for millions of years

plants

• create their own food out of inanimate material

animals

• eat other living things (50)

fungi

• cell walls made of chitin

• chitin

• substance never found in plants

• makes fungi more like insects

• cannot photosynthesize

• depend on organic connections with other living beings they can feed on

• mycelium

• fungi underground web

• expands over decades

• oregon fungi

• 2400 years old

• 2000 acres

• 660 tons

trees can suck up more water with the help of mycelium (50 – 51)

• fungal threads grow into/_between_ soft root hairs

• mycelium web expands (51)

• expanding reach of roots!

• fungi demands up to a third of of tree’s total production

fungi grow to be hundreds of years old (52)

• some species host specific

• chantarelles are not however

• oak • birch • spruce

fungi connect across species lines (53)

• trees may fight other species

• fungi connections give strength to the forest