World's largest plant discovered in Australia

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Researchers from The University of Western Australia and Flinders University discovered the world's biggest plant.

This is an ancient and incredibly resilient seagrass," stretching for 111.847 miles. Its age is at least 4,500 years old.

"We often get asked how many different plants are growing in seagrass meadows and this time we used genetic tools to answer it," said Elizabeth Sinclair with the UWA Oceans Institute, CBS informs.

"The answer blew us away – there was just one!" said UWA student researcher Jane Edgeloe, lead author of the study. "That's it, just one plant has expanded over 180km (111 miles) in Shark Bay, making it the largest known plant on earth."

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