How this biomass expands?! I don't think this happens anywhere else on earth. Usually tress downed into the water simply become bare trunks in the water.
chocrates 9 hours ago [-]
The article states that it grows on driftwood so it is buoyant and mentions it is not that rare (not explicitly but it talks about it happening before)
ElijahLynn 8 hours ago [-]
Anybody else immediately think of "Lost" when they read this headline?
Brigadoon is a musical with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and score by Frederick Loewe.[1] The plot features two American men who stumble upon Brigadoon, a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every 100 years; one man soon falls in love with a young woman from Brigadoon.
Happens on lakes in Wisconsin. See [0] for a very interesting example of what happens when one gets real big and floats away.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2AG6LAOBYo