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Largest living organism is a fungus

Fun Fact! Fungi, as organisms, are mostly underground in the form of mycelium. Click here to read more!

Fungi, as organisms, are mostly underground in the form of mycelium. That is how a cluster of honey mushroom in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon is capable of being the largest living organism on Earth, spanning 3.4 square miles.

Source: Riggs, K. A Fungus Among Us---Author Names Oregon’s Humongous Fungus as one of the Grossest Places on Earth. U.S. Department of Agriculture. November 15, 2012. https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/11/15/fungus-among-us-author-names-oregons-humongous-fungus-one-grossest-places (accessed 2024-11-21).


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