How long does the tallest plant in the world reach? What is the largest plant in the world? A photo.

The best of the best …

(From the Book of Records of Chuvashia)

Plants:

- the smallest flowering plant- duckweed;

- most poisonous plant- milestone poisonous;

- the most "prolific" weed - odorless three-ribbed

(forms up to 1 million 650 thousand seeds);

- the most shade-tolerant cereal - spreading pine forest;

- the highest cereal growing in water is reed;

- the most "dirty" algae - cyanide;

- the fastest growing plant in water bodies - elodea;

- the most "furry" plant - bear's ear, mullein;

- the highest liana - hops;

- the fastest growing tree - birch;

- the most difficult to exterminate weed - creeping wheatgrass;

- the most ancient plant - club moss;

- the most “attached” meadow plant is dodder (clover,

European, linen);

- the most "early waking up" plant - meadow goat's beard

(opens at 3-4 in the morning);

- the most fragile leaves are rakita or fragile willow;

- Belozor has the lightest seeds weighing 0.00003 grams;

- the longest rhizome - more than 70 cm - from grassy

plants has couch grass;

- the highest viability - up to 60 years - have primrose seeds

biennial and curly sorrel;

- the longest lifespan of herbaceous plants -

up to 300 years - has lingonberries;

- the most "universal" medicinal plants is St. John's wort;

- the highest annual shoots (up to 3 m) in aspen;

- the most prickly fruit has a water chestnut, chilim;

- the longest life expectancy among trees has

pedunculate oak;

- the slowest growing shrub - warty euonymus

(by the age of 15 reaches 1.5 m, and by the age of 30 - 2 m);

- the most "weedy" tree (weed tree) - American maple;

- bearberry has the most “tasteless” fruits;

- the lowest calorie vegetable - cucumber;

- the largest weed is giant hogweed (height 3.65 m,

leaf length

- up to 91cm).

The world's smallest chameleon (Brokesia sp.) at your fingertip. Brookesia is a genus of tiny chameleons found in northern and northwestern Madagascar. The size of this type of chameleon reaches from 28 to 33 millimeters. Photographed in Montagne des Francais, northern Madagascar.

Vegetation records

· South American plant from the family of Compositae Hevreulia shoot-bearing ( Chevreulia stolonifera) holds the record for seed flight distance. With air currents, they are able to cover a distance of more than 7.5 thousand km.

· Seeds floated for at least 12 thousand kilometers tropical creeper from the legume family - giant entadas ( Entada scandens). Large, up to 1 m long, beans of this plant are able to spend more than a year in salty sea water without losing seed germination.

· For about a year, air-filled leathery bags of sedges can swim in fresh water.

· The most common weed that inhabited the territory of more than 100 countries is a relative of sedges - round sedge ( Cyperus rotundus). Fortunately, in Russia, except for the Caucasus, it practically does not occur.

· The most diverse family of flowering plants is orchids (a class of monocots). According to various authors, it includes from 17 to 30 thousand species.

· Brazilian plant water hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes, from a family that does not have a Russian name Pontederiaceae) has spread to nearly all major reservoirs and rivers and lakes in the tropical Old and New Worlds, becoming a noxious aquatic weed.

· One of the most salt-tolerant land plants is soleros ( Salicornia europea, from the marev family). It grows on sea coasts and salt marshes with a salt concentration in groundwater of up to 6%. And its seeds germinate even in a 10% saline solution.

· The second largest family of the class of monocots is cereals, it includes from 8 to 10 thousand species. Grasses are ubiquitous, they are found even at the extreme boundaries of the distribution of vegetation - in Antarctica and on the Arctic islands.

· In the dicotyledonous class, the largest family is Compositae. It includes about 900 genera, including from 13 to 20 thousand species. Like cereals, Compositae are ubiquitous - from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from the plains to the highlands.

· The northernmost point on Earth where a flowering plant is found is the alpine sapling ( Cerastium alpinum, from the clove family) - Lockwood Island, which is located in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago - 83 about 24 "N. Further north, only some mosses and lichens are found.

· The southernmost border of the distribution of flowering plants lies between 64o and 66o S.l. on the Antarctic continent and the Antarctic islands. Here, in the moss-lichen deserts of Antarctica, there are two types of flowering plants - thick-leaved colobanthus ( Colobanthus crassifolius, from the clove family) and grass pike antarctic ( Deschampsia antarctica).

· most high speed growth has one of the relatives of bamboo - edible leaf-grown grass ( Phyllostachys edulis), found wild in southern China. The daily growth of the shoots of this plant reaches 40 cm, i.e. 1.7 cm per hour. In just a few months, the leaf grate grows to a height of 30 meters, reaching 50 cm in diameter.

· There are plants distributed on all continents of the Earth. They got the name cosmopolitan. The top five most widely planted are: shepherd's purse ( Capsella bursa pastoris, from the cruciferous family), knotweed, or highlander bird ( Polygonum aviculare), from the buckwheat family), annual bluegrass ( Poa annua from cereals), wood lice or chickweed medium ( stellaria media, from the clove family) and stinging nettle ( Urtica dioica, nettle family ) .

· The hawkweed is considered the most diverse genus of flowering plants in terms of the number of species ( Hieracium, Compositae family). Species of hawks are very variable, in addition, there are many transitional forms. Therefore, the sizes of this genus are estimated by different botanists from 1 to 5 thousand species.

· Sedges are also a very large genus ( Carex, sedge family). Currently, according to experts, sedges number from 1.5 to 2 thousand species.

· The oldest tree on Earth is also considered to be a gymnosperm plant - spiny pine ( Pinus longaeva or P.aristata), growing in the mountains of Eastern Nevada. Radiocarbon analysis showed that the age of this tree is about 4900 years.

· Blueberries growing on sphagnum bogs ( Vaccinum myrtyllus) and cranberries ( Oxycoccus palustris) from the lingonberry family (according to other views, from the heather family) are able to tolerate very high soil acidity - a pH of about 3.5.

· In a wide range of soil acidity, some cultivated plants. Thus, rye and sorghum are the most indifferent to soil acidity and survive in the pH range from 4.5 to 8.0. Cotton and carrots are very intolerant acidic soil, but calmly tolerate pH fluctuations from 5.0 to 8.5.

· The African baobab is considered one of the "thickest" trees in the world ( Adansonia digitata, from the Bombax family). The diameter of the trunk of the largest of the described baobabs was about 9 m. However, the diameter of the usual edible European chestnut ( Castanea sativa, chestnut family), growing on Mount Etna in Sicily, in 1845 had a trunk 64 m in girth, which was about 20.4 m in diameter. The age of this giant was estimated at 3600-4000 years. Giant water cypresses grow in Mexico ( Taxodium mucronatum) - gymnosperms from the order of cypress, with a trunk diameter of 10.9 to 16.5 m.

· At a height of 6218 m above sea level, a squat plant mossy gerbil rises into the mountains ( Arenaria musciformis, from the clove family). A little lower, at an altitude of 6096 m, in the Himalayas, several types of edelweiss grow ( Leontopodium) from the Compositae family. Cultivated plants also rise high in the mountains. AT Central Asia the border of agriculture reaches 5 thousand meters above sea level. In Tibet, barley is grown at this altitude.

· About 45 species of flowering plants are so original that separate families have been established for them - with single genus and one view. Most of these plants are inhabitants of the tropics and subtropics. And in the temperate zone there are adoxa musk ( Adoxa moschatellina) and umbrella susak ( Butomus umbellatus) are the only representatives of the Adox and Susak families, respectively.

· The "longest" tree on Earth is the liana-shaped rattan palm (genus Calamus, palm family). Its total length, according to various sources, reaches from 150 to 300 m. It is interesting that the diameter of the trunk at the base does not exceed a few centimeters in rattan. Rattan stems stretch from tree to tree, holding on to prop plants with the help of strong spikes located on the middle veins of large pinnate leaves.

· The total length of all roots of a four-month-old winter rye plant is more than 619 km.

· The raffia tedigera palm growing in Brazil has the largest leaves in the world ( Raphia taedigera). With a 4-5-meter petiole, its pinnate leaf blade reaches a length of more than 20 m and a width of about 12 m.

· The Amazonian water lily has the largest leaves with a whole plate - Victoria Amazonian ( Victoria amazonica, synonym - V.regia, from the water lily family). Their diameter reaches 2 m, and the maximum "carrying capacity" with a uniform load is 80 kg.

· One of the largest leaf buds (shortened future shoots) is a head of cabbage. The weight of a head of cabbage can reach more than 43 kg.

· The smallest flowering plant on Earth is rootless wolfia found in fresh water bodies of Australia and the tropics of the Old World ( Wolffia arrhiza, from the duckweed family). A tiny leaf of wolfia has a diameter of 0.5–2 mm. At the same time, the plant is able to form rather large clusters, covering the surface of reservoirs with a continuous film, like ordinary duckweed.

· Wolfia rootless and her relative - duckweed small ( Lemna minor) and the most small flowers. Their diameter does not exceed 0.5 mm.

· The largest inflorescences are possessed by the umbrella coryphe palm ( Corypha umbraculifera) growing in South-East Asia and on the island of Sri Lanka. The height of its inflorescence reaches 6 m, and the number of flowers in the inflorescence is half a million.

· The record for the duration of flowering was set by the burning palm tree, or kitul ( Caryota urens). This tree, growing in southwestern Asia, blooms once in a lifetime, after which it dies. However, flowering lasts continuously for several years.

· Nut lotus seeds ( Nelumbo nucifera

· The largest tubers (modified underground shoots) are formed by the Asian yam plant ( Dioscorea alata, from the Dioscoreaceae family). Cultivated yam tubers can reach a mass of 50 kg. They are eaten baked or boiled and taste like potatoes.

· In stevia leaves Rebo ( Stevia rebaudiana) - plants from the Compositae family, native to South America - contain glycosides stevin and rebodin, which are 300 times sweeter than sugar.

· Most of the protein in the seeds - 61% - contains the leguminous plant lupine (genus Lupinus). However, along with protein, lupine seeds contain poisonous alkaloids, which does not allow them to be used in nutrition.

· Cuban tree eschinomene bristly ( aeschynomene hispida, from the legume family) has the lightest wood in the world. Its density is only 0.044 g / cm 3, which is 23 times less than the density of water and 3 times lighter than the wood of the famous balsa tree. The raft Kon-Tiki was made from balsa wood, on which the famous traveler Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean.

· The largest seedlings are characteristic of breadfruit from the mulberry family, more precisely, one of its species, jackfruit ( Arctocarpus heterophyllus). The mass of one seed is about 40 kg, length - about 90 cm, width - up to 50 cm.

· The largest pollen grains - their diameter is 250 microns - has an ordinary pumpkin. And the smallest pollen is formed in the anthers of forget-me-not ( Myosotis sylvatica) - 2–5 microns. Interestingly, both plants are insect pollinated. In wind-pollinated plants, the average diameter of pollen grains is 20–50 microns.

· The record holder for the area occupied by the crown is the Indian banyan, or Bengal ficus ( ficus bengalensis, from the mulberry family). This ficus forms a large number of aerial roots on the side branches, which, reaching the ground, take root and turn into false trunks. As a result, the huge crown of the tree rests on root supports. The most famous of the banyan trees grows in the botanical garden of Calcutta. In 1929, when measurements were taken, its crown circumference exceeded 300 m (a little less than 100 m in diameter), and the number of "trunks" - aerial roots - reached 600.

· Nut lotus seeds ( Nelumbo nucifera, the lotus family), discovered in 1951 in Japan, in a peat bog at a depth of 5.5 m, were in a boat that belonged to a Stone Age man. After extracting them from the peat, they germinated, the lotuses developed normally and bloomed. The burial of these seeds in peat without access to oxygen contributed to the preservation of their viability. Radiocarbon analysis showed that these seeds were at least 1040 years old.

· The tallest tree on Earth is currently considered an evergreen sequoia ( Sequoia sempervirens). The largest tree reliably measured in the last century grew in the US Sequoia National Park, had a height of 120 m and was called the "Father of the Forests". The tallest living sequoia grows in California. Its height in 1964 was 110 m 33 cm. The tree has given name"Howard Libby". Close in size to evergreen sequoia and dendron sequoia, or mammoth tree ( Sequoiadendron giganteum). However, these plants are gymnosperms (cypress order), and the tallest flowering plants on Earth are Australian eucalypts ( Eucalyptus, myrtle family). The tallest eucalyptus trees that exist now are considered to be two trees belonging to the royal eucalyptus species ( Eucalyptus regnans). One of them has a height of 99.4 m, and the other - 98.1 m.

· The most "heat-resistant" land plant is camel thorn ( Alhagi camelorum, from the legume family). It tolerates temperatures up to +70 o C.

· Birch tree shoots ( Betula, birch family), poplar ( Populus, willow family) and - from gymnosperms - larch ( Larix) are highly resistant to cold. They are able to withstand cooling down to -196 o C. Blackcurrant cuttings ( ribes nigrum, from the gooseberry family) are able to withstand cooling down to -253 ° C, without losing the ability to root after thawing. However, this is the potential cold tolerance of plants, established in the laboratory. At the cold pole in the northern hemisphere, birches and larches tolerate a drop in temperature to -71 o C.

· The title of the most drought-resistant plant is claimed by the sea brown algae - bladder fucus ( Fucus vesiculosus). It endures a tenfold loss of moisture from the original content. By the way, it is also the most frost-resistant among algae. Fucus can withstand temperatures down to -60 o C.

· The growth rate of the fruiting body of the mushroom fungus vulgaris ( phallus impudicus) is twice the growth rate of leaf-grate shoots, reaching 5 mm per minute.

And finally a few more interesting facts belonging to other groups of plants and fungi.

· The largest aquatic plant- brown alga macrocystis ( Macrocystis pyrifera). Her maximum length, according to various sources, ranges from 70 to 300 m.

· The record holder for diving into the water column is also the brown alga Laminaria Rodriguez ( Laminaria rodriguesii). In the Adriatic Sea, it was raised from a depth of about 200 m.

· But the blue-green algae oscillatoria filiform ( Oscillatoria filiformis) perfectly lives and breeds in the water of hot springs, the temperature in which reaches +85.2 o C.

· Bushy lichens of the genus cladonia in the dried state remain alive after heating to +101 ° C. A moss barbula slender ( Barbula gracilis) remains viable even after keeping it at a temperature of +110-115 o C for 30 minutes.

· The most dense wood, which is 1.5 times heavier than water, has a piratinera (genus Piratinera, from the mulberry family), growing in Guyana. Almost the same dense wood has a guaiac, or bacout, tree ( Guajacium officinale, from the parnophyllous family). Its density is 1.42 g/cm 3 . In terms of strength, the wood of the bacout tree is almost as good as iron.

· The largest animal is the blue whale, its length is 30 m and its weight is 122 tons.

· The most "armed" animal is the white shark. The strength of its bite is such that the pressure of the teeth when closing is the same as that of four elephants.

· The fastest animal on land is the cheetah. It develops speed up to 110 km/h.

· In the sea, the sailfish is the fastest. She can swim at a speed of 109 km/h.

· And in the air, the swift is the fastest, it flies at speeds up to 170 km / h.

· Turtles live the longest among animals.

· The most "tenacious" of animals is the sea sponge. A whole organism will grow from the pieces of her body.

· The northernmost plants are yellow poppy and low-growing arctic willow, they grow in the Far North (up to 83 o N).

· The southernmost plant is hair grass, discovered in 1981 on Exile Island in Antarctica (68o21" S).

· The highest growing plants were discovered in 1955 in the Himalayas at an altitude of 6400 m - this is the Himalayan hermaniopsis and the lobed ranunculus.

· by the most long plant is a creeper philodendron climbing. In the United States in 1988, such a liana 339.5 m long was discovered.

· The tallest tree ever measured on the planet was the regal eucalyptus on the banks of the Watts River (Australia, Victoria, 1872). The height of the eucalyptus was 132.6 m.

· The most massive tree on Earth is the giant sequoiadendron. The needles of the tree are bluish-green, and the red-brown bark in places reaches a thickness of 61 cm. Height individual trees- up to 80 m with a trunk diameter of up to 20 m. The estimated weight of the tree is more than 2000 tons. The seed of the giant sequoiadendron weighs only 4.7 mg. mature tree 1,300,000,000 times heavier than it.

· The oldest on Earth can be considered Antarctic crustal lichens, whose age is at least 10,000 years.

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The biggest tree.

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The tallest tree.

If we talk about the record of all time, then the tallest tree, whose size was documented, is the regal eucalyptus, cut down in Australia in 1872. Its length exceeded 150 meters.

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The longest tree

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The largest crown.

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The oldest tree

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The thickest tree

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The fastest growing plant.

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The tallest grass.

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The largest pitcher.

Most tall plant to date from the category of trees is an California sequoia Hyperion, its height is 115 meters 24 centimeters. Trees that were taller than this sequoia no longer exist. In 1872 An Australian Eucalyptus reqnans was measured at 150 meters. Another eucalyptus from Australia reached a height of 143 meters in 1885. All these achievements remained only in the records.
Sequoia California belongs to the coniferous evergreens and is one of the tallest trees on earth, reaching over 100 meters in height with a diameter of 8.5 meters.
tallest plant from the genus of herbs grows in Kamchatka. The size of the grass there reaches a height of 4 meters. A rider on a horse can easily hide in such grass. The banana also belongs to herbaceous plants, although many are accustomed to considering it a tree. The highest banana is considered to be, its height reaches 15 meters.
tallest plant from the genus of flowers is the Suguaro cactus, which grows in Mexico and the US state of Arizona. The height of such a cactus reaches 15 meters, and its weight is simply shocking - from 6 to 10 tons. The cactus has another record, it is able to live for more than 300 years.
Among the plants of the underwater world also has the tallest plant. Flowering plant Posidonia, the oceanic length of which reached 8 kilometers.

Photos of the tallest plants

Video tallest plants

Oceanologists from the research university mediterranean sea, which is located in Spain, made an extraordinary discovery. At the bottom of the sea, near the Balearic Islands, the most big plant in the world. Its length was more than eight kilometers.

The stems of the plant, which was called "Oceanic Posidonia", stretched over such a huge distance. It is a flowering plant from the Posidonia and Posidoniev family. This is the only genus in the family with three species at once.

plantation at the bottom of the sea

Usually, Posidonia grow in huge colonies and form a kind of bottom meadows with other sea grasses. They can be found in sea bays or bays at a depth of 30-50 meters.

Plants are completely submerged in water. They have fairly strong and thick monopodial rhizomes, erect short shoots and adventitious roots depart from their nodes. In the colonies of Posidonia oceanic, there are vegetative shoots of two types: creeping along the periphery, but upright in the center. And all form adventitious roots in the nodes, and they themselves turn into new rhizomes. Shoots of both types contribute to the fact that vegetative propagation occurs rather quickly, so the plant captures new areas of the bottom.

It is worth noting that Posidonia is perhaps the most ancient plant on our planet, moreover, it is the most important part of the ecosystem. Poor ecology affects the number of plants, so it began to gradually decline. But scientists hope that their discovery will help draw the attention of others to environmental issues to make a slight difference to the situation.

Land record holder

But the largest plant on land is a vine-shaped palm called rattan (Calamus). Its length, according to various sources, can range from 150 to 300 meters. Well, the champion is considered to be a liana-like palm tree, which can only be found in the mountainous part of India. It grows up to 350 meters and more. And this despite the fact that the trunk of a palm tree does not exceed a few centimeters in diameter, about seven. Rattan stems creep from one plant to another and are held on them thanks to the so-called prop plants with the help of hardy spikes on the middle veins of huge leaves.

It is noteworthy that this plant is very even. On a segment of four meters, the trunk can be of the same diameter. And lateral knots and branches on this plant can not be found. There are only leaves that come from the buds on the trunk. Rattan is extremely easy and unconstrained to cling to and move from tree to tree. It uses leaf veins for this, at the ends of which spikes are located backward with a point.

Scientists note that the name "rattan" is applied to the name of the genus Calamus itself. And if we decipher this term more widely, we get the collective name of the vines of the palm family from the genus Calameae, which, in turn, belong to the genus Calospatha. The wood of the plant consists of three layers, as well as a very strong bark, a hard central part, a soft and porous middle layer. In addition, the wood has a slightly porous structure and therefore easily bends and can be processed. This is because the vine itself grows in a very humid climate.

Rattan is common in the forests of Malaysia, Southeast Asia and Indonesia. Liana does not participate in the processes that occur in nature, which is why cutting down palm trees does not affect the ecology of the planet. Meanwhile, rattan is used to make different furniture, traditional for the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. The furniture is environmentally friendly, comfortable and very beautiful.

Alignment up

But which tree is the largest in the world, it is very difficult to say for sure. And the point here is that Australian eucalyptus trees, which grow up to 150 meters, have already died. Thus, the American sequoia, which has a height of up to 150 meters, is knocked out as a leader.

In the United States of America, more than 130 trees are registered, which are 106 meters or more in height. By the way, in the Guinness Book of Records, until recently, the Giant of the Stratosphere was listed - this is a Californian sequoia, which in Redwood Park has grown to 112.7 meters. It was noticed in 2000, and was written into the Book only in 2004. Meanwhile, sequoias are capable of reaching up about a quarter of a meter a year, so trees of ever greater height are constantly being discovered in Redwood Park. So, in 2006, Hyperion trees were measured - it grew to 115.25 meters, Helios - up to 114.6 meters and Icarus - up to 113 meters. Scientists have found that average age These trees are about 1600 years old.

According to scientists from Northern Arizona University, who measured the speed of movement of fluids in a tree and evaluated its ability to photosynthesize. As a result, it turned out that the sequoia should reach at least 130 meters. And here the paradox is that during growth, the upper leaves get less moisture, because it needs to be delivered to a great height. Therefore, at a certain stage, the tree will not be able to withstand the life of the upper crown.

And here are the trees bigger size, which are known from records, but no longer exist - these are not redwoods from Australia, but eucalypts. A tree 150 meters high was found in 1872, in 1885 a 143-meter specimen was measured. For a century and a half, the tallest trees on the planet have been shredded. Even the modern Australian eucalyptus, about 79 meters high, was destroyed by fire, so sequoias from America came out on top. It can be argued that in the near future the largest tree will be a 130-meter California sequoia from Redwood Park.

giant leaves

But the largest leaves of Victoria amazonica. She is from the Kuvshinkov family. Two species of Victoria grow in Jamaica and South America. The plant prefers to grow in ponds with shallow depth.

The largest leaves

Victoria leaves grow to incredible sizes - they are about two meters in diameter. And the leaves can withstand loads up to 35 kilograms. An adult can easily walk through the thickets without even getting his feet wet. By the way, Victoria's flowers are appropriate - up to 35 centimeters in diameter. And they emit a fragrant aroma from afar. The fruit grows up to 10 centimeters.
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This is a world of incredible contrasts. In this world, there are almost invisible dwarfs and real giants, it's incredible dangerous plants and vice versa, incredibly useful. The most contrasting representatives of the flora will be discussed below.

The largest tree in the world

It is also the largest and heaviest living organism on Earth. This title belongs sequoiadendron by the name "General Sherman", which has been growing for 2500 years in the United States. The dimensions of this one are simply impressive: height 84 meters, diameter 11 meters, base circumference 31.3 meters. Even more serious indicators fall on weight - 1910 tons and volume - 1490 cubic meters.

The tallest tree

This nomination should be divided into 2 categories: - currently growing trees, - champions of all time. Of the currently growing trees, the tallest is sequoiadendron(aka mammoth tree and giant sequoia), which the Americans also gave the nickname - "Hyperion". At the moment, its height is 116.2 meters.

The absolute record holder is regal eucalyptus, which was cut down in 1872 in Australia, the length of this eucalyptus exceeded 150 meters.

They also grow very tall and, among them you can find many plants whose length reaches more than 100 meters.

The longest tree

Palm rattan, which looks more like a vine, grows up to 300 meters. Interestingly, the diameter of the trunk at the very roots is only a few centimeters. In terms of growth, the rattan palm is also more like a liana, it twists around other trees and clings to them with the help of thorns located on the leaves.

The largest crown

Many types of ficuses have an interesting feature to form aerial roots (layers) and, due to this, grow horizontally. This ficus life form is named banyan. The largest banyan tree today is "Great Banyan" from Indian botanical garden, its area is 1.5 hectares.

The oldest tree

spiny pine intermontane - apparently is the longest-lived tree on Earth. Pine by name "Methuselah", which grows in a high-mountainous region in North America, will be 4863 years old in 19 years, and if this happens, it will beat the record of another pine of the same species "Prometheus". Today, the age of "Methuselah" is 4844 years!

The thickest tree (the thickest trunk)

Taxodium mexican(cypress) growing in the city of Santa Maria del Tule has a diameter of 11.62 meters and almost 36.5 meters in girth.

Baobabs and European chestnuts also achieve impressive results in this category.

fastest growing plant

This record belongs to plants from the bamboo family. Almost all types of bamboo grow at a rate of up to 20-30 cm per day, but the fastest growth rates are observed in edible leaf grate. This plant grows up to 40 cm per day.

The tallest grass

Fun fact, but the tallest grass in the world is banana(banana palm). This is not a joke, bananas are real herbaceous plants. The record belongs to the variety Musa itinerans- 12 meters high.

largest aquatic plant

Kelp macrocystis can grow up to 300 meters in length, however the average size ranges from 70 to 200 meters.

The largest water lily

Water lily victoria regal(Victoria Regia) is the largest in the world, its diameter is more than 2 meters. It grows in the Amazon basin.

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