Pennyconny wrote in
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Hi All,
Our decorative wooden fence made of posts driven into the soil has
rotted. We are digging it out (or my husband is!) while I type.
There are tons of very white root-like strands running into the roots
of shrubs and threading their way everywhere. I assume it is a fungus
of some sort but is it dangerous? Do we have to get it out of
everything? Is the soil contaminated?
Or maybe the plants can live with it once the rotten wood has been
taken away. Hope so!
In hope of enlightenment,
Penny
PS. Research says it might be called 'Mine Fungus'

That's the mycelium. Many different types of fungi have
mycelium that looks very similar; it is usually necessary
to wait for the "fruiting body" to appear before
identification can be made.

In the vast majority of cases the mycelium is harmless
to live plants, the common exception being "honey fungus".