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World’s biggest plant discovered under the sea in Australia is same size as WIGAN....
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THE world’s largest plant has been discovered under the sea — and it is the same size as Wigan.
Seagrass aged 4,500 years old and covering a whopping 70 square miles has now been named as the Earth’s biggest bloomer.
Scientists were shocked when they looked at the vast vegetation’s genetics to see how many plants were in a marine meadow.
Lead researcher Jane Edgeloe said: “The answer blew us away — there was just one.”
As all the plants have the same genetic code, they count as a single organism.
The hearty herbage in Shark Bay — 450 miles north of Perth, Western Australia — is nearly as old as Stonehenge.
It is believed to have expanded over thousands of years by repeatedly cloning itself.
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I'll have to update my teaching materials. Until this news, I've been sharing that the largest organism on earth is the Armillaria ostoyae fungus, growing in the Blue Mountains in Oregon. It covers around nearly four square miles (10 square kilometers).
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Seagrass aged 4,500 years old and covering a whopping 70 square miles has now been named as the Earth’s biggest bloomer
I'm sure there are larger bloomers in Wigan. In fact certain  |
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