[dfwgator]

The fungus among us.

[ComputerGuy]

Interesting

[Carry_Okie]

These hyphal networks form two-way pipes to channel nutrients and carbon to and from plants, respectively.

More than just water and nutrients. My elder daughter did her PhD in a tripartite symbiosis between Mortierella fungi, bacteria, and Arabidopsis.

[Rummyfan]

Should I be concerned?!

[chajin]

In before the fun guy jokes

[GingisK]

My toes are hooked into that.

[BradyLS]

“10% of the Milky Way”???

[Paal Gulli]

There’s a single honey mushroom plant (”plant” is the wrong word, but I use it for clarity) in Oregon that spans more than 2200 acres (3.5 sq.mi.). It’s the largest living organism on earth with low estimates of its weight at 7500 tons.

Unfortunately, they’re parasitic and will kill any of a number of commercially valuable trees if they attach to them.

https://thatoregonlife.com/2020/01/largest-organism-humongous-fungus/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria_ostoyae#Distribution_and_habitat

[kawhill]

“while cultivated trees had the lowest, at 204 feet per cubic inch (3.8 meters per cubic cm).” Trees drink water.

[BipolarBob]

This might explain my jock itch problem.

[DFG]

[AloneInMass]

What, if laid end to end?

[Beowulf9]

They probably vote democrat, too !

[HYPOCRACY]

Gay black guys in Star Trek use it to travel around the universe.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

I believe scientists:

on covid, on covid vaccines, on globe bull warming, on all this CRAP.

[equaviator]

"Earth's underground fungal network is so massive, it would span 10% of the Milky Way"

How many football fields is that?

[PeterPrinciple]

if fungi weren’t there to break down cellulose think how deep the forest floor would be................

thank goodness for toe nail fungus, else we would be covered in toe nails.

[Texas Eagle]

Crap. As if I wasn’t already having enough trouble sleeping.

[PghBaldy]

If all hyphae were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised! They are sex fiends.

[null and void]

Fungi ping...