Smith, Bruhn & Anderson
A huge underground fungus that is one of the largest living organisms on the planet has turned out to be both bigger and older than thought. It may have been quietly spreading through the soil of Michigan since the end of the last ice age.
James B. Anderson of the University of Toronto in Canada and his colleagues discovered the enormous Armillaria gallica fungus in the late 1980s, while studying fungi that were killing red pines on a Michigan plantation. “We found one genetic …