RE: Largest living organism
- To: Diane <o*@macn.bc.ca>
- Subject: RE: Largest living organism
- From: L* R* <l*@peak.org>
- Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 22:05:16 -0700 (PDT)
> Calculations of the rate of growth show it to be at least 1,500 years
> old; its genetic makeup has established it is unequivocally a single
> organism (genetically identical over the 37 acres) and was derived from
> a single spore so long ago!
>
> I couldn't resist posing this question while on the topic of fungi.
>
Ah, Diane, TWO spores! Basidiomycetes have sex.
Loren russell corvallis, oregon
