The World's Giant Plant: Hint, It’s Not Rafflesia Arnoldii
What We Can't Sea
If you love learning about giant plants, then this episode is for you! The world's giant plant is a fascinating creature that is not to be missed. Listen to this episode to learn all about this amazing plant.
The world’s largest plant was the flower Rafflesia arnoldii, also known as the Stinking Corpse Lily. It has been noted for producing the largest individual flower on Earth, native to the rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo. And yet, who knew that we could find something even crazier: a 4,500-year-old seagrass plant that clones itself. As part of a survey, researchers collected samples from ten seagrass meadows across Western Australia’s Shark Bay, about 500 miles north of Perth, and studied 18,000 genetic markers to test how many different plants grew in the area. Seagrasses are a polyphyletic group which evolved through at least three independent ‘return to the sea’ events in the early Cretaceous.
The World's Giant Plant: Hint, It’s Not Rafflesia Arnoldii
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