'Humongous fungus' takes toll on fir forest - OregonLive.com
Most people walking by would never know the fungus lurks just below the ground’s surface, occupying its time in the quiet business of sending out shoestring-like tentacles called rhizomorphs and wrapping them around tree roots.
Its sheer mass — it’s roughly the size of 1,600 football fields — makes Herman Melville’s fictional white whale Moby Dick seem like a tadpole. And it could get bigger.
