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| Dec 21, 2015 at 17:43 | comment | added | nigel222 | Fungi aren't plants. Otherwise I could comment that the largest living organism is a fungus 100 miles across on the USA prairie. Instead check out banyan and mangrove trees which send down "aerial roots" from their branches. These then thicken into trunks. Such trees spread without fundamental limit, until something stops them (such as another tree). | |
| Sep 25, 2014 at 0:43 | comment | added | PipperChip | What about trace metals and other nutrients needed, like nitrogen? If it does not have a big enough root system, it can run out of those elements in addition to not being able to support itself. | |
| Sep 23, 2014 at 7:19 | history | answered | smithkm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |