Believe it or not, in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon, USA. Underground living organisms found it was not a gang mushrooms, but only one fungus alone. If you want to serve snacks crispy mushrooms, this fungus can be enough to feed the entire population of the island of Java for a week.
This fungus called Armillaria ostoyae or honey fungus that lives in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon, USA. The fungus lives about 3 feet below the ground surface and possess an area of about 890 hectares / 8.9 km2 and at least 2,400 years old, even more.
Giant fungus is described along 5.6 kilometers and has spread to three times that number into the ground. This fungus has blanketed the area with 1665 times as large as a football field.
The discovery comes after Catherine Parks, a scientist at the Pacific Northwest Research Station in La Grande, Oregon who heard the death of a large tree that continues from root to root in the forest east Prairie city.
By using aerial photographs, Parks see that area filled with trees dying. He then identifies the type of fungus in DNA testing. He compared the elements of 12 fungi and he saw that 61 samples come from the same organism. It means there is a fungus that grows so large from what ever imaginable.
The only evidence on the surface of this fungus is the appearance of roundness golden autumn with rain. "They can be eaten but not the kind of food is best," said Tina Dreisbach, a biotani and mycologist at the US Forest Service in Corvallis, Oregon.
If you dig into the roots of the trees that have died, it would seem like painting a white rubber. This is a layer of mycelium which describe fluids and carbohydrates from trees that feed the fungus.
This fungus called Armillaria ostoyae or honey fungus that lives in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon, USA. The fungus lives about 3 feet below the ground surface and possess an area of about 890 hectares / 8.9 km2 and at least 2,400 years old, even more.
Giant fungus is described along 5.6 kilometers and has spread to three times that number into the ground. This fungus has blanketed the area with 1665 times as large as a football field.The discovery comes after Catherine Parks, a scientist at the Pacific Northwest Research Station in La Grande, Oregon who heard the death of a large tree that continues from root to root in the forest east Prairie city.
By using aerial photographs, Parks see that area filled with trees dying. He then identifies the type of fungus in DNA testing. He compared the elements of 12 fungi and he saw that 61 samples come from the same organism. It means there is a fungus that grows so large from what ever imaginable.
The only evidence on the surface of this fungus is the appearance of roundness golden autumn with rain. "They can be eaten but not the kind of food is best," said Tina Dreisbach, a biotani and mycologist at the US Forest Service in Corvallis, Oregon.
If you dig into the roots of the trees that have died, it would seem like painting a white rubber. This is a layer of mycelium which describe fluids and carbohydrates from trees that feed the fungus.
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