• Question: How big has the biggest plant been????

    Asked by to Amelia, Izzy, Sarah on 20 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Isabel Webb answered on 20 Mar 2014:

      The biggest flower in the world is the Rafflesia, which is one meter across!

      The tallest plant is a Californian Redwood, found in the USA. It is 115m tall! That is the same size as a wind turbine!

      The largest plant, however, might be even bigger, depending on what you call a single plant. There are trees like aspen which grow clones off their roots. These clones are identical to the parent plant, and all share the same roots. Some people call them individual trees, but many people think that it is all one plant.
      There is a clonal aspen tree in America called ‘Pando’. Pando weighs 6,000,000kg (6 million)! That is 100,000 of me! Pando is also thought to be the oldest living thing, and people guess it is over 80,000 years old.

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