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Link for the lazy: http://wowpedia.org/Zangarmarsh

The fruiting body of a fungus is typically a reproductive mechanism. Bigger mushroom = more spores (ie. size does matter).

And by taller than others the spores would be more likely to be carried over everything else by the wind and travel further distances. A short mushroom's spores might end up only traveling a few feet before hitting, say, another mushroom.

For pop-culture references, I was thinking Matango.

http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2007/03/22/a-more-interes...

Actually, giant mushrooms replaced trees in the "Beyond the Dark Portal" expansion to WarCraft II.

For example see the 2nd screenshot there: http://allgamesplayed.com/pc/warcraft-2-pc/

Haha that zone totally came to my mind too. It's actually quite cool how many different types of zones Blizzard has made in that game... I wonder if they'll ever run out of ecosystems.