A giant individual of the fungus, Armillaria gallica, or honey mushroom, first studied 25 years ago by James B. Anderson, a professor emeritus of biology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, is ...

Twenty-five years ago, James Anderson discovered a fungus that expanded the possibilities of life on Earth. Sipos and Nagy not only sequenced four species of Armillaria, but they also pinpointed genes ...

Here’s a fun fact: The world’s largest organism isn’t a well-fed elephant or a blue whale or even a giant sequoia. It’s a fungus. A Facebook post from July 20 about the Armillaria is one of the latest ...

The world's largest living thing is even bigger than a blue whale (which happens to be the largest animal living now). Meet Armillaria ostoyae, or, as it's nicknamed, the Humongous Fungus. It's an ...

A very common sight this year in our landscapes, judging by the phone calls we have gotten, is the presence of clumps of honey-colored mushrooms. These mushrooms are the spore-producing structures of ...

Here’s a fun fact: The world’s largest organism isn’t a well-fed elephant or a blue whale or even a giant sequoia. It’s a fungus. These images have attracted numerous visitors to Oregon’s Malheur ...