RE: Largest living organism

sluggo@sirius.com writes:
>Dear Diane,
>I'm sure that fungi come in first for the largest living organism but 
>pushing the Sequoias back to several places from the top would be large 
>beds of Sea Kelp in the ocean and groves of Aspen in the Rocky Mountains 
>which often reproduce asexually by underground runners making the entire 
>grove one individual. There are many more examples that will set the 
>Sequoias back even further but I must admit that seeing mature groves of 
>Sequoiadendron giganteum in Sequoia National Park is a sight that people 
>come from around the world to see and they will not be disappointed.

I think its easier for people to see the massiveness of a seqoia as
compared to fungus (which is hidden for the most part) or a grove of trees
that look like any other grove. I remember going to the Mariposa Grove in
Yosemite where you see S. giganteum, and marveling at the largest tree
there (it took two pictures to get the base of the tree and the crown in). 
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