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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!
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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.
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