Re: [OM] fungus

[Charles Geilfuss]

  You are right Andrew. See here:
http://www.extremescience.com/zoom/index.php/largest-living-thing

  But there are other candidates as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_organisms

Charlie

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Extremely tenacious. The glue used in cemented elements was Balsam, organic
> and suitable food for fungus. I don't think the problem has been as bad
> since they substituted synthetic cements. But the stuff can grow on a clean
> surface in the right conditions!
> Isn't the largest organism on earth a subterranean fungal mass somewhere?
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 25/03/2011, at 8:07 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
> > I think you're right about fungus growing between cemented elements.  It
> > reminds me that I was watching a TV show last night which showed a tree
> > growing out the side of a rocky cliff in an area where there was little
> > water.  Due to caves in the rock which allowed viewing them it was
> > discovered that the tree's roots were reaching some 435 below ground.
> > Fungi perhaps have the same sort of tenacity.
>
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