which is the largest plant?

Answer 1

I feel ur question should be further more specific....

Anyhow, just try this answer.....It has details of both the smallest and largest plant......

Let me start with the LARGEST Living Plants .....Sequoia sempervirens are the tallest (up to117 meters!) and they belong in the Group know as Redwoods. Another redwood known as Sequoiadendron gigantium, is usually the one that that is pictured with a tunnel running though the base that cars can drive though! These are both found on the West Coast of the USA. Redwoods belong in the family of Gymnosperms (naked seeds) and more specifically Conifers. Conifers are plants like pines, firs and spruces.

The SMALLEST plants are ... Fresh Water Green Algae (Chlamydomonas genus). They are unicellular - the size of only 1 cell (less than 25 micrometers long)! They have a nucleus, thylakoids (special membranes inside the cell) and chloroplasts - which is where photosynthesis takes place. It is believed that Chlamydomonas is the ancestor to green plants.

Given below is an URL for the same.....

Answer 2

Botany.
Any of various photosynthetic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae characteristically producing embryos, containing chloroplasts, having cellulose cell walls, and lacking the power of locomotion.
A plant having no permanent woody stem; an herb.

To add to what Good Samaritan said, I would like to describe the baobab. While it may not be the tallest, this great tree of the genus Adansonia is very wide in girth and canopy diametre, for my lack of a better word.

The first link below has more bibliography on the baobab.


Seems the largest non-woody flowering plant is a Rafflesia arnoldii, the record size, according to the Guiness Book of Records, which stretched 91cm and 3 feet in diameter, 1.9 cm or 3/4 inch thick and weighed 7 kgs or 15 lbs.

Answer 3

Wikipedia

Answer 4

"What is probably the largest living organism on earth has been discovered in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon. A fungus living three feet underground is estimated to cover 2,200 acres. After testing samples from various locations, scientists say it is all one organism. "

http://www.factmonster.com/spot/fungus1.html

I have heard of another large fungus in Europe, but I can't find a link.

edit: When I think about it, fungus is perhaps not a plant by definition.

Answer 5

the Largest known plant is a FERN TREE. the largest tree is the Redwoods in California. By the way FUNGUS ARE NOT PLANTS!

Answer 6

Largest: sequoiadendron giganteum (giant redwood)

Tallest: sequoia sempervirens (coast redwood)

Both found right here in California. Seen them both... quite impressive. Even driven through one. East coast folks could not believe the pictures of our car driving through one.

Did you know sequoia is the shortest word containing all the vowels?

'nuff said?

Answer 7

Question needs to be more specific.

But u can try the following link. Will get to know many interesting things :)
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/index/records.asp?id=24&pg=1

Answer 8

Probably a Sequoia tree.

Answer 9

Baobab Tree. Can take up many acres.