Some even glow in the dark.
Better than magic. This fungus is 2,200 acres (890 hectares) and is probably over 2,400 years old found in Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon. Apparently they are safe and delicious to eat. A delicacy in Russia and Europe.
Can you imagine a thing so huge? It's bigger than a city. And it’s invasive; killing off evergreens where ever it spreads to with white filaments called rhizomorphs, mycelia, that grow directly into trees stealing its water and nutrients killing them off. Seriously this is like out of a 1950’s sci-fi flick but its real. Surviving off of woods and shrubs killing all in its path.
Maybe you have seen these during one of your hikes through the bush. It will most likely be visible on dead or dying trees.
What makes this mushroom so freaky is not just it sheer size and mass or that it was growing here before Jesus was born but its unusual spores. Its spores are made of “chitin” some of the hardest known materials on earth and some scientists believe it could travel trough space and may have arrived on earth that way.
It grows and spreads underground and pokes up in seemingly random places making it difficult to detect how big it actually is but scientists took DNA samples from different areas over the years and discovered it is all one big organism.
http://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/honey-fungus.html#sthash.FqqTFuo2.dpbs
There are many varieties around the world with just as many looks.
What a sight. Huge, spectacular in the most literal sense.
I don't recommend eating any mushrooms you find in the woods unless you are or are with a trained expert. Too many look a likes and many mushroom just want to kill you or make you ill.
Source
http://www.extremescience.com/biggest-living-thing.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria