What plant is the thickest. The tallest plants

Rafflesia(Rafflesia; Indonesian bunga patma - lotus flower), corpse lily is the brightest symbol and rarity of the flora of Indonesia, and at the same time the largest (up to 9 kg in weight and up to a meter in diameter) flower in the world.

amorphophallus(lat. Amorphophallus - from other Greek ἄμορφος, "shapeless", and other Greek φαλλός, "phallus") - a genus of the Aroid family

The smallest flower in the world has petals that do not exceed 2.1 mm in diameter and are so transparent that you can see through them. This flower is orchid(belongs to the genus Platystele), discovered in the roots of an orchid of another species by the famous American botanist Lou Jost.

The smallest plant is wolfia flower. It consists of a tiny leaf and root submerged in water. Wolfia blooms so rarely that many botanists chase her flower all their lives, but they never manage to find it ... After all, the whole flower is the size of a pinhead.

The noisiest tree is the so-called cannon tree growing in Guiana. Its fruits are round balls up to 18 cm in diameter. They hang from the trunk on thick loops. The wind will blow, and the balls begin to beat against the barrel and against each other with a cannon roar.

The hardest tree is Schmidt birch. A bullet will not pierce it, and the sharpest ax will become dull without harming the tree. Schmidt's birch grows only in Russia, in Primorye, in the Kedrovaya Pad reserve.

This amazing water lily has been named after the most famous English queen for more than a century and a half. Nothing surprising. Victoria regia is the queen of flora, the world's largest aquatic plant. It is also called "Victoria Amazonian", as it can be found on the warm rivers and lakes of the Amazon basin.

Carnegia giant (Saguaro) Another amazing plant cactus family . The height of individual plants is about 14 meters, and the diameter is more than 3 meters! At the same time, the age of individual cacti reaches 150 years.

Nepenthes (Nepenthes). Most plants from this genus can be called "predators" without exaggeration, which obtain the necessary missing nutrients by "digesting" the caught insects. The surface of the "neck" of the jug is very slippery, so there is practically no chance for an insect walking along the neck not to slip down. The insect falls into the water (in some species, a jug can contain up to 2 liters of water) and drowns. Further, enzymes are produced that completely "digest" the insect. Sometimes not only insects are trapped, but even mice , rats, birds.

At first glance, it may seem that the photo above depicts a forest. In fact, it is one single tree. ficus bengal forms powerful branches to support which shoots grow, which, letting go down to the ground, take root, forming powerful columns-trunks.

Puya Raymonda of the Bromeliad family, native to the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes, has the largest inflorescence with a diameter of 2.5 meters and a height of about 12 meters, consisting of approximately 10,000 simple flowers. It is a pity that this amazing plant blooms only when it reaches the age of 150, and then dies.

Raulia extraordinary (Raoulia eximia), the English name sounds like "vegetable sheep", which very accurately describes the appearance of the plant. Such a bush 1.5 m high really resembles a lamb. Growing in New Zealand.

Pachypodium namaquanum (Pachypodium namaquanum) The English name of the plant is translated as "elephant's trunk". This succulent has fleshy, collected in a large funnel, pointed towards the end of the leaves. The homeland of the pachypodium is Namibia, where the plant has to survive in this way in the heat, accumulating moisture in the leaf plates.

Cruciform collection (Colletia paradoxa)

Kirkazon giant (Aristolochia gigantea). Grows in a wide variety of climates. Kirkazon is significant primarily for its colors. In every possible way, flowers imitate .. rotting meat. This is facilitated by the appropriate smell and color.

Desmodium gyrans. Modern botanists call it either Desmodium gyrans or, more correctly, Codariocalyx Motorius. This plant surprises everyone with the movement of its leaves - the plant seems to be dancing, especially if there is a lot of sun.

Euphorbia obesa very similar to a ball . This plant is native to South Africa and has become famous for its original form. This plant is also known for its rarity - the fact is that Euphorbia obesa is endemic, that is, it grows strictly in a certain region, not found anywhere else.

New Zealand nettle tree. The most dangerous stinging plant is the New Zealand nettle tree. It can kill a dog and even a horse, vp prowling them under the skin of a mixture of strong poisons. Thin, stinging hairs on the leaves contain histamine and formic acid.

Common Aronnik (Dracunculus vulgaris)- plant up to 90 cm tall, leaves reach 20 cm in length.
The leaf stalks and fleshy stems are spotted with brown, giving them the appearance of snakeskin. An inflorescence appears at the top of each stem in early summer. The bedspread with a wavy edge reaches a length of 45 cm. Outside it is pale green, inside it is purple-crimson. A dark purple ear of the same length as the bedspread.

Amorphophallus (Amorphophallus)(from Latin its name translates as "shapeless penis") belongs to the lily family. Its flowers are huge leaves dissected in the middle, from which a large cob emerges. The aroma of amorphophallus is usually compared to the smell of rotten eggs, spoiled fish or meat, but it attracts insects that pollinate the plant. The plant lives for about 40 years and during this time it blooms only a couple of times.

BLOODY TOOTH (HYDNELLUM PECKII). This cute fungus looks like chewed gum, oozing blood and smelling like strawberries. But do not try to eat it, because it will be the last "delicacy" that you will taste in your life.

DOLL'S EYES / DOLL'S EYE. This unusual plant is called "puppet eyes". There is also a less telling name for this horror - a white raven. No features other than appearance this plant does not have

CEDAR-APPLE RUST FUNGUS. Cedar-apple rotting fungus is a fungal infection that transforms apple and cedar fruits beyond recognition. Horror films can be made about this abomination: infected fruits turn into disgusting monsters in just a few months. Here's how it happens: from a tiny spore of a fungus, an impressive spherical body develops - from 3.5 to 5 centimeters in diameter, when wet, this abomination exfoliates, forming vile antennae.

CHINESE RUNIC FLOWER / CHINESE FLEECEFLOWER. The fruits of the "runic flower" have frightening shapes that make them look like little potato people. The Chinese are uprooting these tiny underground inhabitants from the earth in order to use their naked defenseless bodies as a panacea for all diseases, including impotence, cancer, AIDS, dementia, etc., etc. ... Before turning into a life-giving powder, little men are subjected to all kinds of torture, including: boiling, skinning, soaking in moonshine and dismemberment.

There is an assumption that the Chinese simply grow these roots in a pot of the desired shape ...

PORCUPINE TOMATO / PORCUPINE TOMATO. Porcupine tomato is a one and a half meter monster growing in Madagascar, the leaves of which are covered with frightening-looking orange thorns. This spiky wonder-yuda has incredibly beautiful purple flowers, collected in clusters, with which it lures its victims to itself: and now you are already bending over to pick one of them and find yourself impaled on “deadly” spikes. In addition to being thorny and poisonous, the Porcupine tomato is almost impossible to kill: most chemicals are unaffected by it and it can survive severe cold and even severe drought. As you already understood, this creation of nature is a monstrous weed. In a short time, one plant can spawn a whole army of Porcupine tomatoes, which in a few weeks will turn into 1.5 meter giants, each of which will fight to the last and shed more than one liter of your blood before being uprooted from the ground.

Lithops. This unusual plant can be found in the deserts of South Africa. Lithops prefer extremely hot and dry habitats. The name of this plant, translated from Greek, means "stone"

Parachute flower (Ceropegia woodii) Petals joined together and something like a chupa-chups covered with hair together form a hollow tube, covered from the inside with hairs directed inward. The smell of the plant attracts insects that fall into the trap.

Tallest plant to date from the category of trees is an California sequoia Hyperion, its height is 115 meters 24 centimeters. Trees that were taller than this sequoia no longer exist. In 1872 An Australian Eucalyptus reqnans was measured at 150 meters. Another eucalyptus from Australia reached a height of 143 meters in 1885. All these achievements remained only in the records.
Sequoia California belongs to the coniferous evergreens and is one of the tallest trees on earth, the height of which reaches more than 100 meters with a diameter of 8.5 meters.
tallest plant from the genus of herbs grows in Kamchatka. The size of the grass there reaches a height of 4 meters. A rider on a horse can easily hide in such grass. The banana also belongs to herbaceous plants, although many are accustomed to considering it a tree. The highest banana is considered to be, its height reaches 15 meters.
tallest plant from the genus of flowers is the Suguaro cactus, which grows in Mexico and the US state of Arizona. The height of such a cactus reaches 15 meters, and its weight is simply shocking - from 6 to 10 tons. The cactus has another record, it is able to live for more than 300 years.
Among the plants of the underwater world also has the tallest plant. Flowering plant Posidonia, the oceanic length of which reached 8 kilometers.

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The first plants appeared on the planet more than 400 million years ago. Their world is diverse and amazing. There are especially many bizarre plants in countries with a warm and humid climate, which contributes to their rapid development. Each type of plant has its own growth champions. When it comes to the largest or tallest plant, each of us thinks that these are trees, but there are also very large flowers, herbs and vegetables.

Sequoia or eucalyptus?

Traditionally, sequoias are recognized as the tallest and largest plants, which are a type of ancient coniferous trees, the largest specimens of which grow mainly in the US state of California. They grow all their lives, most of them reach a height of 110 m. Above 110 m there are only 15 trees, and they are all in America.

In 2006, a sequoia called Hyperion was discovered in Redwood Park, the height of which at the time of measurement was more than 115 m, and its trunk diameter was almost 5 m. But this is not the largest plant in the world, since there is a giant sequoiadendron (mammoth tree ) with a height of about 84 m. The girth of its trunk at the base is more than 30 m. This representative of plant giants, which grows in the Sequoia National Park in California, was named General Sherman in honor of the hero civil war in USA.

The second contender for the title of the tallest plant is the Australian eucalyptus. Until recently, they were the highest - they reached 150 m. Today, there is only one large eucalyptus "Centurion" 101 m high, with a trunk diameter of 4 m. This giant is located on the Australian island of Tasmania, but this is not the tallest plant in the world .

Rattan above all

rattan stem

But for the title of the tallest plant with sequoia and eucalyptus, climbing plants of the tropics successfully argue in their favor. In the struggle for a place in the sun, they are forced to wrap themselves around tree trunks. They grow as far as the height of the support allows and, if possible, spread to a neighboring tree.

It has been established that many creepers reach a length of 300 m. It is known that the length of one rattan climbing palm was measured, approximately equal to 320 m. Palms of this species grow in Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Indonesia. The rattan palm is the tallest plant in the world. It is safe to say that currently the tallest plants in the world are:

• rattan,
• sequoia,
• eucalyptus.

Who is bigger?

A clonal poplar colony named "Pando" is one of the largest known living organisms on Earth.

It is located in the USA, Utah. All trees of the Pando colony are genetically identical, that is, they are one organism with a single root system for all 47,000 stems. The weight of this plant is estimated at approximately 6,000 tons.

Located in the botanical garden of the city of Howrah (India), the Bengal ficus "Great Banyan", recognized as the national symbol of India, has the most spreading crown, reaching a circumference of 350 m. The area occupied by the tree is approximately 1.5 hectares. Because of a large number aerial roots-trunks (2880) the plant looks like a grove, not a separate tree.

It is difficult to say which of these two organisms is larger, but the largest plant on the planet was found in the Mediterranean Sea near the Balearic Islands.

This is a flowering plant Posidonia oceanic, its shoots form adventitious roots, the reproduction of the plant occurs vegetatively, and very quickly. The length of this algae has reached more than 8 km.

giant flowers

The tallest flower was discovered in Sumatra. Its height can reach 4 m. This is Amorphophallus, it is also called snake palm, Voodoo lily, corpse flower and devilish tongue.

In the vast expanses of our planet, there are many corners that retain their secrets. Nature has prepared many mysteries and surprises for us. Studying its mysteries and learning its secrets, humanity is step by step approaching it, realizing that the Earth is our home, and it must be protected.

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The biggest tree.

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The tallest tree.

If we talk about the record of all time, then the tallest tree, whose size was documented, is the regal eucalyptus, cut down in Australia in 1872. Its length exceeded 150 meters.

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The longest tree

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The largest crown.

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The oldest tree

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The thickest tree

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The fastest growing plant.

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The tallest grass.

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The largest pitcher.

Saxaul has the deepest roots among plants. This plant belongs to the Amaranth family and grows in the desert. In Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, you can often find real saxaul forests.

Externally, this plant is a shrub or small tree with leaves in the form of colorless scales. Photosynthesis in saxaul does not occur in leaves, but in green branches.

Saxaul is characterized by an extremely powerful root system. Often its roots go to a depth of 10 meters or more. This is explained by the fact that in the deserts, saxaul, aquifers lie at great depths and large plants grow long powerful roots to reach the water.

The most famous types of saxaul are black saxaul and white saxaul. Their green branches serve as excellent, and often the only available food for camels.

Camel-thorn

Another desert plant that has a powerful root system is called camel thorn. The thorn itself rarely grows above 50-100 centimeters. But its roots can grow up to 4 meters or more. The presence of such a developed root system in camel thorn, as in saxaul, is explained by the deep location of aquifers in the desert. In addition to deserts, camel thorn is found in the steppes and semi-deserts of the south of our country, in the Caucasus and Central Asia.

The aerial part of the camel thorn is used in official and folk medicine. Dried thorn grass is used in the treatment of gastritis, colitis, stomach ulcers, and is also used as a diuretic and astringent.

ficus

The roots of some plants are only partially located underground. If we consider the depth of the roots as the length of the entire root, then the ficus will be the record holder for this indicator in the plant world. Some types of ficuses reach 30 meters in height. At the same time, their aerial roots descend almost from the very top of the trunk.

One of the wild ficuses growing in South Africa holds the record for the longest roots among all terrestrial plants. The largest roots of this tree reach 120 meters in length.

Many ficuses begin life by growing directly on the bark of the host tree. When the ficus grows, it sends down aerial roots, which, reaching the ground, braid the host plant, which leads to its death. And ficus continues to develop on a dead tree frame.