I think it's time we had that talk about The Fungus, among us.

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Strange but True: The Largest Organism on Earth Is a Fungus
The blue whale is big, but nowhere near as huge as a sprawling fungus in eastern Oregon





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Friend of mine read this book, said it was even more amazeballs than it sounds.


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Strange but True: The Largest Organism on Earth Is a Fungus
The blue whale is big, but nowhere near as huge as a sprawling fungus in eastern Oregon





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Friend of mine read this book, said it was even more amazeballs than it sounds.


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Have you got a picture of this huge fungus?
The world of mushrooms is fascinating lol sounds really boring but I've watched a few documentaries on them and I was hooked so I'm sure that book will be good... When people start picking mushrooms it often becomes a hobby, pick the wrong one and your dead lol so you need to research which will lead to searching for rare ones... I'd love to know all the different kinds of mushrooms but I'd rather go fishing, maybe when I'm older I'll enter the world of shrooms... Know a wee bit about the magics though =)
 
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Friend of mine read this book, said it was even more amazeballs than it sounds.


61KtqYhO2NL.jpg
Have you got a picture of this huge fungus?
The world of mushrooms is fascinating lol sounds really boring but I've watched a few documentaries on them and I was hooked so I'm sure that book will be good... When people start picking mushrooms it often becomes a hobby, pick the wrong one and your dead lol so you need to research which will lead to searching for rare ones... I'd love to know all the different kinds of mushrooms but I'd rather go fishing, maybe when I'm older I'll enter the world of shrooms... Know a wee bit about the magics though =)
There are pics in the Scientific American piece, , it's not like one gigantic 'sroom pulsing out there in the high desert of Eastern Oregon, but more like a vast "crop" or field or grove of Mushrooms that are all clones of the original fungi. read the short article in SA.


There is a forest of Quaking Aspens in Colorado, that are considered to be "One Organism"
 

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Friend of mine read this book, said it was even more amazeballs than it sounds.


61KtqYhO2NL.jpg
Have you got a picture of this huge fungus?
The world of mushrooms is fascinating lol sounds really boring but I've watched a few documentaries on them and I was hooked so I'm sure that book will be good... When people start picking mushrooms it often becomes a hobby, pick the wrong one and your dead lol so you need to research which will lead to searching for rare ones... I'd love to know all the different kinds of mushrooms but I'd rather go fishing, maybe when I'm older I'll enter the world of shrooms... Know a wee bit about the magics though =)
There are pics in the Scientific American piece, , it's not like one gigantic 'sroom pulsing out there in the high desert of Eastern Oregon, but more like a vast "crop" or field or grove of Mushrooms that are all clones of the original fungi. read the short article in SA.
Riiiight... I got it... "Collectively, this network is called the mycelium and is of an indefinite shape and size." It could be 8,000-year-old man holy shit! "These are very strange organisms to our anthropocentric way of thinking," says biochemist Myron Smith of Carleton University... It may only be a fungus but you gotta admit it's pretty special...