The Largest Plant of the world

The Largest Plant of the world has been discovered

 

「 Image source: Rachel Austin/University of Western Australia 

 

The Largest Plant of the world - a seagrass the size of 20,000 football fields - has been discovered by the Australian researchers. 

 

It has been observed off the coast of Australia. The seagrass covers approximately 200 km which is believed to have spread from a single seed over at least 4,500 years.

Dr Elizabeth Sinclair, senior author on the research, wrote, 

 

“To find out how many different individual plants are growing in a seagrass

meadow, you have to test their DNA. 

 

We did this for meadows of ribbon weed seagrass called Posidonia australis in Shark bay.

 

The result blew us away: it was all one plant. One single plant has expanded over a stretch of 180 km making it the largest known plant on Earth.”

 

Nazmul Islam Lizan