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If you find Fungi as interesting as I do, you’ll enjoy this State of the World’s Fungi 2018 report:
Did you know that given their cell wall, digestion and food storage and DNA, they are closer to animals than plants? That they play a key role in global cycling of nutrients, carbon lock up, fighting desertification, drugs including statins and antibiotics, biofuel synthesis and bioremediation of the environment, not to mention cheese-making?
The largest living thing on earth is hiding underground in the Oregon mountains.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141114-the-biggest-organism-in-the-world
Nice reads, thanks for posting!
Since Yeasts are also part of the Kingdom Fungi, can we also give credit to Fungi for beer and bread??
Bruce, I’m lichen the way you think (symbiotically, though)!
Which came first, beer or bread? Evidence of a 13,000 year old brewery found in Israel.
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6963-180912israel-beer-brewing
Having experience making both, I think beer is easier so I would argue that beer came first.
Yes, thread drift from the behavior of trees in forests.
Ralph that’s interesting – I’ve read of various fungi over time that were supposed to be largest organisms, they all seemed to be located in the PNW.
Bruce I caught that archaeology story, quite a find by the Stanford team. Beer and wine had great importance in ancient and medieval times not just in ceremony but also as safe water sources.
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