Fungi are the recycle organisms of this world. Everything dead they process into new nutrients for the earth and plants. People fear fungi because they are synonymous with death and destruction. Humans use many useful fungi for example during truffle ceremonies but we also use fungi for brewing beer, baking bread and making cheese.

They can break down anything made from natural materials. Fungi are already being used to fight environmental pollution because they are in fact able to break down even oil because the origin of oil was an organic material. Furthermore, many fungi have a cleansing effect.

Truffles are the underground fruits of fungi where mushrooms are the above-ground fruits. Under the ground, the fungi form a large network of threads called Mycelium (plural Mycelia). These white threads (which you can also find in a plant container) create a sclerotium or plural sclerotia for survival. These sclerotia are the truffles we use during the truffle ceremony.

Through the Mycelium, many different fungi communicate with each other but trees and plants also use this network to communicate with each other. Also, they use this network for their food supply. This is because the network determines where the nutrients go that the fungi have converted. Thus, the Mycelium controls the entire ecosystem.

Because the Mycelium connects everything, it can store the right nutrients, minerals and vitamins where it wants them. It does this, like fruit trees, for example, in the fruit. In mushrooms and truffles, the mycelium stores all the important substances. Therefore, many truffles and mushrooms have medicinal properties.