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This fungus-filled tumor is delicious.
Haha.
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The situation reminds me of a burl which is a tumor-like growth on trees. Burl wood can be beautiful. Here's a guitar as an example...
Burlwood is so gorgeous. And since you can get a potentially giant round lump of wood you can do things with it you can't do anywhere else. Burls, and their enormous potential economic value in the deeply weird society, are a big plot point in one of Niven's Ringworld books.
Lmao what? I'm going to have to read more of those
I'm not sure if it's the first or second one, but the characters had a whole neat idea about what you could do with a burl in the ring.
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