Man these are bizarre. What’s the purpose of the elevation if you aren’t chasing sunlight for photosynthisis? Even if these are a weird separate branch of fungi, fungi don’t grow tall like that. Also I wonder at what they used for structural strength, as they don’t have cellulose.
The more we learn the more things don’t fit in our neat little organizational labels.
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Reading up on these it seems like theres some potential for these to have been more tree like, with leaves and everything, which in turn would explain why they grow to be so large compared to everything else around them.
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Man these are bizarre. What’s the purpose of the elevation if you aren’t chasing sunlight for photosynthisis? Even if these are a weird separate branch of fungi, fungi don’t grow tall like that. Also I wonder at what they used for structural strength, as they don’t have cellulose.
The more we learn the more things don’t fit in our neat little organizational labels.
Reading up on these it seems like theres some potential for these to have been more tree like, with leaves and everything, which in turn would explain why they grow to be so large compared to everything else around them.