Researchers have revealed there's a plant about 4,500 years old and measuring 180 kilometres across living right under our noses in Western Australia.
Genetic testing has revealed that what was once thought to be part of a giant seagrass meadow in the shallow waters of Shark Bay, near Carnarvon, was actually a single massive clone of Posidonia australis seagrass.
According to the researchers, who published their findings in Proceedings of the Royal Society B today, that makes it the single largest plant known to exist on Earth.
"Certainly by land area, to the best of our knowledge, it is [the largest plant in the world]," said evolutionary biologist and study co-author Elizabeth Sinclair from the University of Western Australia.
Source: www.abc.net.au
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