Fw: Largest living organism
- To: "Medit-Plants" <M*@ucdavis.edu>
- Subject: Fw: Largest living organism
- From: "* <o*@macn.bc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 12:46:28 -0700
Subject: Re: Largest living organism
Hi Loren,
You'll have to take the argument single vs. two spores up with Dr. Alun
Rees - I was quoting him when he said it was derived from a single
spore.
----- Original Message -----
From: Loren Russell <loren@peak.org>
To: Diane <otterpt@macn.bc.ca>
Cc: Medit-Plants <Medit-Plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 10:05 PM
Subject: RE: Largest living organism
> > 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
