Unless it's been surpassed, the world's largest living organism is a 9 square kilometer fungus that's been growing for about 10,000 years.
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
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Just got surpassed by yo momma actually.
(Sorry I couldn't resist, please no ban)
No worries friend, it's why she was a perfect match for my dad who is a fun guy (fungi).
Beautiful
Gottem
Wow, here I was thinking Pando was the biggest. This fungus is a good bit bigger
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I love how many times they repeated humongous fungus in the article.
Now eat your fungi penis up it’s good for you.
But sir, why are the trees dancing?
They're telling you that life and the universe and everything is dancing the same dance
Puts the pan on stove. Ignites the flame and adds some olive oil. Everything is in order to sear the heretics.
Mushrooms are near impossible to burn. All you're doing is giving them a flavorful sauna.
damn it 😖
Mm, crispy mushrooms. Unburnt by flame, unseared by iron, but consumed and burned for energy in the acd pits of me... Who's the eldritch horror now, huh? I will eat any lesser organism.
Mushrooms are so fucking cool, and they taste great too.
And they make you feel amazing too
Or dead. Choose wisely.
Uh oh
I discovered The CryptoNaturalist over at the other place, and ending up buying 'Field Guide to the Haunted Forest' and 'Love Notes from the Hollow Tree' by Jarod K. Anderson....
Which is unusual for me as I detest poetry. I think it's a pile of long-winded, navel gazing wank...Except for haiku, (because they're short and sweet, and condense things down to their essence, which I like).
I like The CryptoNaturalist though, probably because they write about nature in a weird, beautiful and wonderous way. I want to use the word 'magical' to describe it, but am reluctant, for reasons
Also, thanks to this post I just found out there's a couple of other books available which I'm going to buy tonight 😀
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Fungi confuse me. I can't figure out what they are. I think the fact that I thought they were plants my whole life and then it turns out they aren't just broke me lol.
afaik a decent summary is that they're sorta like animal cells that specced into a plant lifestyle, but since animals are good at digesting stuff and can't photosynthesize, they went for eating dead things that no one else eats.
Coral also isn't plants
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I was speaking to a guy that looks after an ancient forest and he was explaining the fungi that allow the trees to communicate and it was fascinating but I thought he might be pulling my leg, so I came home and read everything, it's fascinating.
a guy that looks after an ancient forest
Some of them will also make you high, but some will kill you.
Some will make you high, then kill you.
Some taste great on pizza, gets you high and then kills you as a bonus.
Only kinda related but if anyone wants a good fantasy book with this kind of energy and theme, Gods of the Wyrdwood by RJ Barker is the way to go
cryptonaturalist has a few books too iirc. great little account, they are on masto too.
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People should look up Paul Stamets. Dude is doing amazing things in the field of mycology and showing the power of mushrooms!
TIL the Star Trek Discovery character has a real life namesake.
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So we're eating leviathon reproductive organs? Sexy
So basically... I just ate a bag of fungi dicks?
Were you hoping for fun guy dicks?
P. cubensis kinda looks like little circumcised penises anyway. At least before they open up.
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This post reminded me of the cracking (though widely misunderstood and reviled) folk horror film "In the Earth". There's a lot going on down there in the mud and mycelium.
The biggest organism in the world is a fungus which goes miles long. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-largest-organism-is-fungus/
Yeah, I saw that X-files episode too.
It’s true I’ve spoken to them many times.
The way so many of them look like genitals makes this so much better
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