Largest Living Thing
Blue Whales are the largest Ocean creatures these mammals can be 100 feet long and can easily weight upto 200 tons. But they are not the largest living things. The largest living thing is the Honey Mushroom discovered in the Malheur National Forest.
This single organism is spread 3.8 km across and has thousands of mushroom fruiting bodies. It covers an area of roughly 9.6 sq km and is between 1,900 and 8,650 years old. This mushroom weighs 6,800–31,750 tonnes making it the largest and heaviest living thing.
About Honey Mushroom
Armillaria is a genus of fungi that includes the A. mellea species known as honey fungi that live on trees and woody shrubs. It includes about 10 species formerly categorized summarily as A. mellea. Armillarias are long-lived and form the the largest living organisms in the world.
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