The fungus, which causes the disease known as corn smut, produces about 25 billion spores per average-sized ear of infected corn. The fungus causing stem rust of wheat generates about 10 billion spores from an acre of moderately diseased plants (Hudler 1998). The wood decay fungus Ganoderma applanatum, has been estimated to produce basidiospores at the rate of 350,000 per second.
Tilda Swinton is a 56 year old British Actress. Born Katherine Matilda Swinton on 5th November, 1960 in London, England UK, she is famous for The Deep End in a career that spans 1984âpresent. Her zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Wes Anderson had Swinton go heavy on the makeup for her small part as Madame D., a nearly 100-year-old widow who falls in love with Ralph Fiennesâ character, who has a thing for older women. This is another part in which Swinton is hardly recognizable, but she adds her characteristic weirdness perfect for the aesthetic of a Wes Anderson film.