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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pano-one-worlds-largest-organisms-dying-180970579/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pano-one-worlds-la... >W
by m4jor 3y ago
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pano-one-worlds-largest-organisms-dying-180970579/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pano-one-worlds-la...
>Weighing 13 million pounds, Pando is the world’s largest organism by mass (Oregon’s “humungous fungus” spans a greater distance). Quaking aspens can reproduce by disseminating seeds, but more frequently, they send up sprouts from their roots and form a mass of trees aptly known as a “clone.”
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-largest-organism-is-fungus/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-...
- turnsout 3y agoThank you! Odd that it's not mentioned in the main article.
- samstave 3y agoWhen I was growing up in Lake Tahoe in the 1980s, I would leave the house in the morning to return at dusk, and I often went on a hike up Ward Creek from my house to the backside of Alpine Meadows. Quaking Aspens were my Spirit Tree and I loved being around them. I didnt know at the time that the groves of Aspen were acually all the same tree. But they had a profound effect on me as I hiked and built stuff from them. I used to chop them down and build tee-pees with pine bows as walls... I was like 13 or so. If you got caught in any of my booby-traps, I am sorry...
- xenadu02 3y agoIMHO that stretches the definition a bit. They're clones that happen to have an interconnected root system. Does that really make them the "same" organism? Not in any useful sense of "same".
- freilanzer 3y agoClones sharing a root system definitely sounds like being the same organism, if you ask me.