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With massive webs of probing black tentacles extending for miles below the ground, the Armillaria group of fungi includes some of the largest known organisms on our planet.
A fungus spanning more than three square miles is sucking the life out of trees in Oregon. University of Utah researchers say it’s possibly the largest living on organism on earth.
University of Utah scientists have studied a 3 1\/2-square mile specimen in eastern Oregon that weighs 35,000 tons and is possibly the largest living organism on earth.
Dec. 7, 2021 — It’s called Armillaria ostoyae, and it’s a gnarly parasitic fungus with long black tentacles that spread out and attack vegetation with