According to overseas media reports, a study recently published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that scientists may have discovered the largest plant in the world to date. The flora is a seagrass meadow on the coast of Western Australia. Through genetic testing, researchers found that it is actually a single type of Posidonia seagrass, which means that the entire meadow grows from a single seedling. , the total area has reached 180 square kilometers, and its age is more than 4500 years old. It is understood that seagrass is a monocotyledonous plant that mainly lives in shallow water along the coast of tropical and temperate seas. It is also the only higher angiosperm on earth that lives completely in seawater. The research began when scientists from the University of Western Australia and Flinders University set out to study the genetic diversity of seagrass meadows in the Shark Bay region. Before the discovery of seagrass in Australia, the record holder for the largest plant was an aspen tree called Pando in Utah, USA, but the aspen tree covers an area of only 0.42 square kilometers, which is 400 points of seagrass. one. research .
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