That's amazing ! Post incredible facts here.

[pErvinalia]

Interesting question. In the case of the huon pine, I think they create new 'individuals' when the branches droop onto the ground for long enough. So at the point that the new 'individual' is created its progenitor and it are one. But presumably at some point they can become physically separated. I'm not sure if the roots are joined or not. It's possible they could join and remain so for pretty much the entire life of the colony.

[Brian Peacock]

Curious creatures for sure.

[mistermack]

Isn't it the largest living "structure" or something like that?

The structure is dead coral.

The largest structure created by life...

There are probably plenty of limestone formations that would beat it for size.

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[Tyrannical]

Isn't it the largest living "structure" or something like that?

The structure is dead coral.

The largest structure created by life...

There are probably plenty of limestone formations that would beat it for size.

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And coral islands, how does that work? Coral is supposed to be under the water. We need more global warming and rising sea levels to help the environment.

[mistermack]

And coral islands, how does that work? Coral is supposed to be under the water. We need more global warming and rising sea levels to help the environment.

Well, we're still in an ice age, so coral islands could have been reefs before the ice age commenced.

[JimC]

I had the wrong "pine" anyway. It's the Huon Pine.

A stand of trees reputed to be in excess of 10,500 years old was recently found in western Tasmania on Mount Read. Each of the trees in this stand is a genetically identical male that has reproduced vegetatively. Although no single tree in this stand is of that age, the stand itself as a single organism has existed that long.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagarostrobos

I wold only consider them to be a single organism if they were all connected by underground roots.

[pErvinalia]

Isn't it the largest living "structure" or something like that?

The structure is dead coral.

Which the live coral live in.

The largest structure created by life...

There are probably plenty of limestone formations that would beat it for size.

What limestone formations were created by life?

[JimC]

Isn't it the largest living "structure" or something like that?

The structure is dead coral.

Which the live coral live in.

The largest structure created by life...

There are probably plenty of limestone formations that would beat it for size.

What limestone formations were created by life?

Most of them, actually, in the sense that limestone derives from ancient beds of a variety of organisms that, one way or another, secreted a calcareous structure, including corals, molluscs and others. However, I think the title still belongs to the Great Barrier Reef, both because it is still growing and connected to living creatures, and because of its overall dimensions.

[pErvinalia]

Yeah true, but they aren't hosting significant life any more. They're geological structures now.

[rainbow]

Yeah true, but they aren't hosting significant life any more. They're geological structures now.

It would depend on how you define geological structures.

[pErvinalia]

I define it to perfectly fit my intended meaning...

[Brian Peacock]

The Earth is the single largest geological structure in the world.

[Brian Peacock]

An individual's liver doesn't fully mature until their early to mid twenties.

[rainbow]

Best enjoyed with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

[Rum]

There is a town in Canada called “Dildo.”