Stalker has been labouring under a misapprehension for many years now - that the largest organism in the world was an extensive honey fungus in the state of Oregon. Now it seems that there’s another contender to that crown.
“In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that provides an entire ecosystem on which plants and animals have relied for thousands of years.
Found in the state of Utah, "Pando" is a 106-acre stand of quaking aspen clones. Although it looks like a woodland of individual trees with striking white bark and small leaves that flutter in the slightest breeze, Pando (Latin for "I spread") is actually 47,000 genetically identical stems that arise from an interconnected root network.
This single genetic individual weighs around 6,000 metric tons. By mass, it is the largest single organism on Earth.”
