The biggest animated

1993/02/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Biologia

“Elhuyar. In the section “New Sciences” of number 63 of the magazine “Science and Technology”, we released a giant fungus, that of the Armillaria Pechuga. This fungus has been considered the largest living on Earth on the surface. A weight of 10,000 kg and an occupied surface of 15 ha was estimated.

Following this line, the largest living known by weight has been known as “giant sequoia”, with an approximate weight of 2,000,000 kg. Then the blue whale, which weighs 180,000 kg.

Michael C, from the Department of Environment, Population and Biological Organisms of the University of Colorado. Grant, Jeffry B. Mitton and Yan B. Linhart wants to catalogue another organism as the great living, both in weight and in surface. The species of poplar Populus tremuloides, located west of the United States, occupies 43 ha and is estimated to weigh almost 6,000,000 kg.

This poplar has 47,000 bushes and its weight (stem, more branches, more leaves, more root) is approximately 130 kg.

Therefore, from now on the record will be in the hands of Populus tremuloides, both in weight and surface, until cataloging another species.