Thats a funny rabbit hole

Hmm

You certainly have my attention

Does that explain the Carboniferous period?

it's bunk. down that same rabbit hole you'll run into flat earth and people claiming geological features are the remains of giants.

before there were plants all over the surface it was covered in fungus

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-before-trees-overtook-the-land-earth-was-covered-by-giant-mushrooms-13709647/

hence why the best solution for terraforming currently is by using mushrooms to do it

>giant mushrooms

How giant?

Tree sized?

Oh

Fuck I'm retarded

But damn

That's huge

Oh yeah, a dumb rabbit hole but funny. Yeah the early trees were just big ferns.

"Pollen? Naw dog, we use spores!"

I don't think such giant mushrooms are possible

Too big to sustain their weight

they've found fossils of them

imagine the spores that it can produce

Don't think I believe that tbh

Giant mushrooms still exist, but they're underground, beneath the forest

What would be the point of a tree sized mushroom?

birch trees are huge organisms

They're all one plant, spread out but not nearly as large as a singular fungus entity

I thought that was Pando

Just Pando

yeah, pando is cool as shit.

@PowerElephant what was the point of crane sized lizards?

there was a point when the surface wasn't hospitable to plant life

fungus can grow in much more extreme climates than plants

What is the mushroom supposed to eat if there's no plant life?

they just need base nutrients

the mycellium is the real organism

the mushroom is just the reproductive portion

large mushroom = more spores

I understand all that but the question remains

they just breakdown whatever they can

some can eat plastic

and petrolium