{"id":20695,"date":"2020-03-27T16:04:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20695"},"modified":"2020-03-27T16:46:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:46:36","slug":"bigger-than-the-biggest-aspidistra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/bigger-than-the-biggest-aspidistra\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigger than the Biggest Aspidistra"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I am talking about\u00c2\u00a0 are plants that are bigger than the biggest aspidistra in the Gracie Fields song book. They represent examples of the biggest natural organic organism in the world. I have three candidates for your consideration a couple of which may surprise you.<\/p>\n

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    1. Honey Fungus,\u00c2\u00a0 Armillaria mellea,\u00c2\u00a0 Armillaria ostoyae, and Armillaria solidipes also known as the humongous fungus, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153honey mushroom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153shoestring fungus.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 The largest measured example of unique DNA is believed to be in Oregon’s Blue Mountains. It is thousands of years old stretches, over 3 square miles, weighs 100s of tons, grows 10 feet deep and is acknowledged as the <\/span><\/span><\/span>largest land organism on the planet.
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    2. A plant in Fishlake National Forest colorado forms a colony of clones of Populus tremuloides also known as\u00c2\u00a0 Quaking Aspen, Pando or the Trembling Giant; it weighs in at an estimated 6,000 tons and may be up to 80,000 years old.\u00c2\u00a0 Clones and <\/span><\/span>genet <\/span><\/span>have identical genetic make-up and are a single living organism assumed to have one massive underground root system.<\/span> \u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      3. The third candidiate and world heritage site is in Ibiza and is a\u00c2\u00a0 sea grass Posidonia oceanica also known as Neptune grass or Mediterranean tapeweed. Despite growing underwater it is not a seaweed but a grass that forms large underwater meadows in this case 5 miles long and over 100,000 years old. It is the largest example of a colnal colony<\/p>\n

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      Other potential\u00c2\u00a0 biggest aspidistras include The Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest structure but\u00c2\u00a0 is composed of a mixture many different living entities, the Giant Sequoia or amongst mammals the Blue Whale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      What I am talking about\u00c2\u00a0 are plants that are bigger than the biggest aspidistra in the Gracie Fields song book. They represent examples of the biggest natural organic organism in the world. I have three candidates for your consideration a couple of which may surprise you. Honey Fungus,\u00c2\u00a0 Armillaria mellea,\u00c2\u00a0 Armillaria ostoyae, and Armillaria solidipes also known as the humongous fungus, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153honey mushroom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153shoestring fungus.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 The largest measured example of unique DNA is believed to be in Oregon’s Blue…<\/p>\n

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