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For natural root growth – the most diverse native mycorrhiza mixes available!

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Forestry Mix
from £58.00
Chaos Fungorum mycorrhizae under the microscope

Chaos Fungorum

Resilience through diversity

In 1767, Linnaeus, the founder of Latin binomial naming system we still use today, published the 12th edition of his Systema Naturae. In it, frustrated by trying to categorise the vast and chaotic diversity of fungi, he banished a diverse selection of fungal groups to a species he called Chaos Fungorum.
Today at Chaos Fungorum we draw upon this great heritage of scientific knowledge, and upon the fungal kingdom’s astonishing diversity, to produce products for forestry, conservation, agroforestry and horticulture which utilise the great untapped potential of the Kingdom of Fungi.
The Chaos Fungorum mixes are seasonal products, made each autumn for sale primarily during the winter bare root planting season. To keep the mixture as viable and diverse as possible we collect spores right up until we start dispatching orders in the autumn. Therefore the mixes change composition slightly each year depending on what species we can get our hands on.
Our Forestry Mix is the most diverse – this year including 44 ectomycorrhizal species. It is suitable for all forms of tree planting, ensuring the right mycorrhizal partners for your trees are there from the outset.
Our Edible Forest Garden Mix is also diverse but contains the spores of only edible ectomycorrhizal species. As well as giving your trees the benefits of inoculation with mycorrhizal fungi, this will give you the best chance of creating perennial edible mushroom patches around your trees.
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