Posted by: Sandy Steinman | June 5, 2022

World’s biggest plant discovered off Australian coast

BBC reports

The largest known plant on Earth – a seagrass roughly three times the size of Manhattan – has been discovered off the coast of Australia.

Using genetic testing, scientists have determined a large underwater meadow in Western Australia is in fact one plant.

It is believed to have spread from a single seed over at least 4,500 years.

Read more at  World’s biggest plant discovered off Australian coast – BBC News


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