Underground forrests

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Yea, an underground forest, WTF right?

Behold:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QneTjzC9Awk&feature=relmfu[/youtube]

How possible without light for photosynthesis?

If that question cannot be answered satisfactorily I would suspect a hoax.

ruveyn

Apparently, most of the plant grows underground, and the "crown cap" in the photo is all that sticks up above the ground.

Nothing new ... no new physics are involved ... no new life-processes were discovered. It's just a new species of plant that is based on good old photosynthesis and other plant principles.

I dunno. The redwoods are 2000 year old and you can build a lot of houses out of one of them. Those plants are 13000 years old? She didn't say how big the roots were. And she's saying they have branches underground? That looks more like a perrenial shrub to me, that can die back and regenerate. Most trees have about the same mass above ground as below. If you cut off limbs in a mature tree, the roots die back to balance. Those little patches of green could only support so much mass underground.

In michigan we literally live on giant mushrooms. Look it up, its scary and amazing!