Which is the largest growing organism on Earth?
The world's largest living thing isn't an elephant, a whale, or a giant squid. In fact, the largest single organism on earth is actually a fungus. The most gigantic, and maybe the most ancient, organism on Earth resides in the Blue Mountains of the US state of Oregon. It lives underground, and has killed scores of living things in its possible thousands of years of existence. No, it's not a gigantic ogre—it's a mushroom-producing fungus the size of 1,600 football fields, and it wipes out trees by the hundreds.
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gbluemoon
Attack of the Humongous Fungus.
cbodge
Went with fungus because it was thrown in with all of the largest animals living today so must have been there for a reason Thanks Tesla for giving the fungus name which was not given in the answer
Dazzla
I thought it was an aspen Grove?
Bob Blumrick
We’ve got Fungus Amungus!
JohnnyRoulette
gbluemoon, That was an entertaining Adrenalin OD album- HumongousFungusAmongUs
Wyla Reedy
You don't want to hang around Fungii.
Arian Matthew Deganian
Why not give us the name of the fungus
Sean Case
Wait 'til BLM & ANTIFA hear of this!
jack patti go
Yikes! Remind me not to go to Oregon!! I guessed!
Humberto Carrasco
GOT IT RIGHT
Gold Toy Box
I'm back, found this:
Pando, the Single Largest Living Organism on Earth. Pando or The Trembling Giant is an enormous grove of Quaking Aspen that is an entire forest out of a single organism. This colony of a single male Quaking Aspen is located in the Fishlake National Forest in Utah, in the US.
Grant studied an aspen clone in Utah consisting of a calculated 47,000 tree trunks covering 106 acres. It is calculated to weigh 13 million pounds. This dwarfed the previous claims. He named the stand Pando for the Latin word meaning “to spread”.
Gold Toy Box
a single Fungi? or a massive colony of Fungus, I'll have to check this out, as an Oregonian I need to know this.
We had a similar question awhile back, and the answer was an Aspen Grove in Colorado?
tbear
cbodge, 👍😊!
tbear
tesla alset, great comment and info,Tesla! 😊 👍
Jas Newman
Got it only because the Great Barrier Reef was not an option.