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The Largest Organism on Earth
- woodall 16y agoPaul Stamets discussed this- along with other mind blowing fungi facts- in his talk, "Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world"(2008). http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mus....
- zafka 16y agoVery Cool, I saw this before but it was inspiring to watch again. I think that his ideas could spawn a number of startups.
- pbhjpbhj 16y agoI thought it was the Pando grove of aspen that is claimed to share a common root system, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_%28tree%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_%28tree%29, it's bigger by volume and weight than the Malheur honey mushroom colony. Both claimants have the problem of it not really being possible to determine if they are merely clonal colonies with disconnections between the clones or if they are genuinely continuously connected across the whole colony. I came across this on Wikipedia a couple of years ago I think, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_organisms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_organisms is a good read.