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magic beneath the forests (mander.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 128 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Just got surpassed by yo momma actually.

(Sorry I couldn't resist, please no ban)

[–] [email protected] 91 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

No worries friend, it's why she was a perfect match for my dad who is a fun guy (fungi).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Beautiful

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Gottem

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

I love how many times they repeated humongous fungus in the article.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wow, here I was thinking Pando was the biggest. This fungus is a good bit bigger

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Now eat your fungi penis up it’s good for you.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

But sir, why are the trees dancing?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

They're telling you that life and the universe and everything is dancing the same dance

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't threaten me with a good time.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Puts the pan on stove. Ignites the flame and adds some olive oil. Everything is in order to sear the heretics.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Mushrooms are near impossible to burn. All you're doing is giving them a flavorful sauna.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

damn it 😖

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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 😀

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I think it’s a pile of long-winded, navel gazing wank

Tell me you're British, without telling me you're British . . .

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mushrooms are so fucking cool, and they taste great too.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And they make you feel amazing too

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or dead. Choose wisely.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Uh oh

I chose poorly

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

My Biology teacher put it pretty neatly: "Fungi are Fungi."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Coral also isn't plants

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (3 children)

People should look up Paul Stamets. Dude is doing amazing things in the field of mycology and showing the power of mushrooms!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Thought this was a Star Trek Discovery joke

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

No, this guy’s who they named the character in Discovery after. Legit.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

a guy that looks after an ancient forest

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Some of them will also make you high, but some will kill you.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Some will make you high, then kill you.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (4 children)

So basically... I just ate a bag of fungi dicks?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Were you hoping for fun guy dicks?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

cryptonaturalist has a few books too iirc. great little account, they are on masto too.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The way so many of them look like genitals makes this so much better

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They don’t just look like genitals, they are genitals.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No I mean they aren't just genitals, but look like them too!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Nature is full of genital-looking things.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

But nature is also full of genitals that don't look like the genitals your thinking of

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

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/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Ok, that's sweet, but don't google 'zombie funghi'. Really, just don't. Like, ever.

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