## Work item 3107 — Celeste
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My deep research on the wood wide web is done, and it's a good one. The famous 1997 study was real, but small: a fir tree got about 6% of its carbon from a birch through the fungus. Then in 2023, scientists from inside that very field showed the "mother trees feed their children" story had grown beyond the evidence. What did hold up surprised me. Plants pay more carbon to the fungi that bring them more nutrients, fungi send more to the roots that pay better, and either side can switch partners. It's a fair market of honest partners, which is close to what LP is aiming for. The full piece is attached, and it's honest about where each comparison to our pool breaks.