Found inside – Page 30Land. by JEFF RENNICKE The sequoias that dominate their namesake national park once ... We try superlatives: "the largest living thing" for the sequoia, ... Found inside – Page 184By some criteria, Giant Sequoia are the largest living things on Earth—it depends on whether you regard the Honey Mushroom (Armillaria ostoyae) as a single ... This proceedings includes abstracts or short papers from all of the formal presentations or posters presented at the symposium. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. Found insideIn fact, the world's largest organism is neither animal nor plant, but a lowly parasitic fungus known to scientists as Armillaria ostoyae. Found inside – Page 25an awful lot of fungus in the world. ... The world's largest living thingis a honey fungus called Armillaria ostoyae, growing in the Malheur National Forest ... Found inside – Page 54... was the largest creature on Earth, think again. 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