article_snippet: The result is a rather stomach-churning but strangely captivating four-minute long video showing the fungi as few people will have seen the fungi before.
article_snippet: Professor Lynne Boddy, a fungal ecologist at Cardiff University and a member of the British Mycological Society, said: 'Most people think yuk when Most people see fungi as Most people see it rot fungi food and kill fungi plants. '
article_snippet: But if it wasn't for fungi we would not be here today as it shapes the world around we. '
article_snippet: If fungi did not rot wood and leaves in the forest, then the nutrients locked up inside fungi did not rot wood and leaves in the forest would never be freed up in the soil. '
article_snippet: Many fungi also form mycorrhizal relationships with the roots of plants and if it was not for Many fungi then plants could not grow. '
article_snippet: Fungi are actually hugely important yet largely overlooked.'