Re: Largest living organism
- To: M*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Largest living organism
- From: "* F* D* <s*@nr.infi.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 09:14:43 -0400 (EDT)
At 10:37 PM 5/2/1999 PST, you wrote:
>** Reply to note from "Diane" <otterpt@macn.bc.ca> Sun, 2 May 1999 21:17:26
-0700
>I remember reading sometime back that the largest living organism
>is a fungus in a woods in Eastern North America somewhere...
>Anyone else remember hearing about his?
>-Maura
>
>Maura:
There was a report on All Things Considered some months ago about forest
fungii in upper Michigan that were supposed to cover acres. A DNA study was
done on samples of mycelia to determine that the same organism and not
clones were present, as I recall. I think this work was reported in Nature
or Science.
Richard F. Dufresne
313 Spur Road
Greensboro, NC 27406
336-674-3105
