[hinkley]

Up until the green revolution, all land agriculture on earth was mediated by fungi. Lichen are basically fungi farming cyanobacteria, and some people suspect there's an unbroken chain all the way down the plant evolutionary tree. It's not outside of the realm of possibility that trees are just a very long breeding program by fungi as well.

We, as cousins to fungi, get to enjoy the literal and figurative fruits of their labor.