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The kingdom of fungi, really astonishing that they can survive completely independently of other life and further setup relationships with living creatures from
by peter_retief 8y ago
The kingdom of fungi, really astonishing that they can survive completely independently of other life and further setup relationships with living creatures from other kingdoms so making life possible on land etc etc. I just came from Kew Gardens, wish I knew about their fungi collection before left London
- rezeroed 8y agoI think the collection is not open to the public, rather for scientists/researchers. I'm there every other weekend and have never seen it highlighted/advertised for visiting.
- peter_retief 8y agoThanks now I dont feel so bad :)
- mythrwy 8y agoCan fungi survive completely independent of other life? All fungi I'm aware of (like humans) are heterotrophs (meaning they can't make their own food from raw materials) but must consume something that is (or was) living to survive.
- peter_retief 8y agoAmazingly certain fungi break down rock and extract the nutrients, I tried to find a good article but they were behind firewalls, this is something though http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/iron-eating-fungus-disintegrates-rocks-acid-and-cellular-knives http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/iron-eating-fungus-di... Further origional life on land was fungi, it was the symbiosis of algae and fungi that evolved into the first plant
- nolroz 8y agoI just heard that we evolved from mushrooms on the Paul Stamets talk with Joe Rogan but I can't find an evolutionary tree (including the one in the Kew report) that shows this clearly. Do you have any references you could share?
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