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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)

Immortal mushrooms? Like some quill does? Googling it is spammed by "mushroom of immortality" because of some chinese legend. But may be the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

Based on the Wikipedia article on biological immortality referencing species that live for a couple hundred years and the Wikipedia page on armillaria ostoyae mentioning living specimens that are multiple millenia old (and thousands of acres large!), I'm guessing that may be what the prof is referring to?

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