What is the largest organism? Until a few years ago, Oregon's "humongous fungus" was considered the world's largest organism.

The largest organism is a honey fungus that can cover thousands of acres. ... If you guessed a redwood tree or a blue whale, you would be wrong. The largest organism is a fungus.

The visit also led them to revise the fungus’s age to 2,500 years and determine that it is four times as massive as the original estimate, or about 440 tons, the equivalent of three blue whales ...

The world’s largest living organism is neither a California sequoia nor the giant blue whale, but a 40-acre fungus. Canadian researchers report today in the journal Nature that the humongous … ...

Here’s a fun fact: The world’s largest organism isn’t a well-fed elephant or a blue whale or even a giant sequoia. It’s a fungus. These images have attracted numerous visitors to Oregon ...

Depending on our prior knowledge, we may think that the largest single organism would be a giant sequoia, blue whale, coral reefs, or a pool of algae. However, the true answer is more complex that we ...

The death of a plant or fungus, however large, may feel less wrenching than that of, say, a blue whale: an animal with a brain and a heartbeat, contained by skin and founded in bone. We can ...

All fungi in the Armillaria genus are known as honey mushrooms, ... Both the giant blue whale and the humongous fungus fit comfortably within this definition. So does the 6,615-ton ...

Imagine a plant weighing as heavy as a Blue Whale – 100 tonnes – covering an area the size of Llanelli, and devouring everything in its path. Honey fungus, the longest living thing on the ...

Citizen scientists have helped shed light on a "humungous fungus" that can kill off common plants. The honey fungus often appears at the start of autumn, when honey-coloured toadstools appear on ...