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A tree in Knole Park, Kent - From a distance, the white growths on the tree looked alien in origin, like tiny flying saucers clinging to the bark. The tree lacked branches, leaves, and a tree top, resulting in it looking fake, as if the tree was actually a radio mast, and the lamp post next to it did not increase the authenticity.

It was not until you stood at the foot of the tree that the mushroom stench became overwhelming, the smell seeming to billow out from under the tree. Amongst the roots were tremendous layers of dead fungi mixed in with the remains of the living, sticking to your shoes as you tried to walk around it, as if the fungi was bubbling up noxiously from the roots.

Some other trees:

More photos of trees.

A lack of ants in Emmetts Garden - A large colony of wood ants used to thrive in the area, so the garden was named after these "emmetts" (ants). Apparently the garden was once bought by an ant expert, but the ant hills have long since gone and I failed to see any.

Date: 2004-11-30 01:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] psychosynthesis.livejournal.com
some varieties of rainforest fungi will infect ants and colonize their bodies. you will have an ant walking around sprouting little green tendrils. they maybe can also control the ant's movements. I forget if they can.

Date: 2004-11-30 01:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] squirmelia.livejournal.com
That sounds really scary!

Date: 2004-11-30 02:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] psychosynthesis.livejournal.com
it bothered me when I first read about it.

Date: 2004-11-30 02:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] verlaine.livejournal.com
Don't worry, the ants would do the same to the fungi if they knew how.

Date: 2004-11-30 08:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] psychosynthesis.livejournal.com
though I figure you might know about it already this page here (http://tinyurl.com/4pcev) documenting ants' practice of crops of fungi. hurray for the hive mind.

Date: 2004-12-01 07:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cerebros-vivos.livejournal.com
There was a TV programme about something controlling a snail's brain, however it escapes me what the controling thing was or the name of the TV programme.

I have an hunch that it may have had something to do with some form of larvae.

reminds me of you

Date: 2004-11-30 05:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bickichick.livejournal.com
Oh yeah, the trees
Those useless trees
Produce the air
That I am breathing

Go and tell it to the trees, yeah
Go tell it to the trees, yeah
Go tell it to the trees, yeah
Go tell it to the trees, yeah
Go tell it to the trees, yeah

http://www.pulp.gb.com/bar-trees.html

Re: reminds me of you

Date: 2004-12-01 02:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] squirmelia.livejournal.com
Yey for the trees!

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