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The largest living organism on earth is a fungus.

A single fungal network, kilometres across, invisible underground, keeping an entire forest alive.

First, the fungus. The largest living organism on earth is a fungus: a single fungal network, kilometres across, thousands of years old, invisible underground, keeping an entire forest alive. Mycelia is the mycelium itself, the network beneath the forest.

Second, one helps all. The trees are connected through that network. What happens to one does not stay with it.

Third, network and life. Mycel and Zelle, the German for cell, share the same letters: cel. A living network of living cells.

In the architecture that means something concrete: a clean node brings an affected neighbour back. See A network that heals itself.

Heal one, heal all.