Historical Marker
A Battle With the Elements
Historical marker location:
725 Summer Street, Florence, Oregon
( Marker can be reached from Cape Creek Road west of Oregon Coast Highway (U.S. 101) when traveling west.)
The largest living organism in the world is a fungus in Oregon. The Armillaria ostoyae fungus covers over 2,200 acres of forest in eastern Oregon and is estimated to be over 2,400 years old. It is also known as the "Humongous Fungus."