What's the fastest growing plant on Earth?

Question

Just wondering?

Answer 1

The world's fastest growing plant can help reduce social injustice in Brazil

WHY BAMBOO? ... HERE'S WHY ...

DEFORESTATION and increased CO2 emissions threaten the earth's
biodiversity and the very air we breathe...

Perhaps the environmental crisis' at hand have not yet touched your
life, but the time is shortly to come. Recent NASA reports of a 60%
loss of ozone over the arctic provide an explanation for increased
severity in the worlds weather patterns which has only begun to affect
us whether directly or indirectly. The social, political and economic
implications are difficult to imagine as our ozone layer continues to
thin, forests disappear and desertization is occurring
at an alarming rate.

BAMBOO HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY...

The earth desperately needs the attention and action of us all or our
children's children will surely not have a world fit to live in.
There is no one solution but amazingly, the simple bamboo plant can
make a dramatic positive impact in many areas. It is our goal to
inform and raise awareness about "Bamboo, People and the Environment"
and provide the tools and information to then respond in one's own way
in their own world. Every action counts, every
person counts...

ENDURING THROUGH TIME...

Thomas Edison successfully used a carbonized bamboo filament in his
experiment with the first light bulb. This light bulb still burns
today in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. He also used a
bamboo as rebar for the reinforcement of his swimming pool. To this
day, the pool has never leaked. An unrivaled utility, (One resource
book lists over 5,000 uses including paper, scaffolding, diesel fuel,
airplane "skins", desalination filters, aphrodisiacs, musical
instruments, medicine, food and was Alexander Graham Bell's first
phonograph needle

SURVIVING THROUGH HARDSHIP...

Amidst death and destruction, bamboo survived the
Hiroshima atomic blast closer to ground zero than
any other living thing and provided the first
re-greening in Hiroshima after the blast in 1945.

GROWING WITH STRENGTH AND SPEED...

With a tensile strength superior to mild steel
(withstands up to 52,000 Pounds of pressure psi)
and a weight-to-strength ratio surpassing that of
graphite, bamboo is the strongest growing woody
plant on earth with one of the widest ranging habitats of more than
1500 species thriving in diverse terrain from sea level to 12,000 feet
on every continent but the poles. It also grows the fastest: clocked
shooting skyward at 2 inches an hour. Some species grow one and a half
meters a day.

Answer 2

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RE:
What's the fastest growing plant on Earth?
Just wondering?

Answer 3

Just to add, kelp is actually a type of algae, which isn't in the plant kingdom, yeast is actually a fungus, bamboo looks like the best answer, but there are some rainforest vines that also grow pretty quick.

Answer 4

I've heard of some bamboos and possibly other tropical grasses, growing up to a foot in 24 hours. That's almost fast enough to see as you watch it!

Answer 5

Bamboo. In some species of this plant if you're patient, you can actually see it grow.

Bamboo is actually a grass. Imagine what that would do to a lawn mower?

Answer 6

Worlds Fastest Growing Plant

Answer 7

Bamboo, some spieces can actually grow 3 feet a day.

Answer 8

Bamboo

Answer 9

i don't know the name of it but I'm sure its one of the weeds in my garden.
If my garden grew that fast I could supply food for the entire city!

Answer 10

The black berries in my back yard can grow 18" in one day. Really!