Would you believe it is a fungus?
“The largest living organism ever found has been discovered in an ancient American forest.
The Armillaria ostoyae, popularly known as the honey mushroom, started from a single spore too small to see without a microscope. It has been spreading its black shoestring filaments, called rhizomorphs, through the forest for an estimated 2,400 years, killing trees as it grows. It now covers 2,200 acres (880 hectares) of the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon.”
The outline of the giant fungus stretches 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometres) across, and it extends an average of three feet (one metre) into the ground. It covers an area as big as 1,665 football fields.
Can it be made into mushroom soup ?
The article says its edible, but not too tasty…
The amazing power of God – not evolution.
If I ever go there I will take my Italian sauce and make
mushroom macaroni.