World's largest plant: 112-mile-long seagrass found off Australian coast

06-03-2022 • arclein

The seagrass claims the record pretty comfortably, in terms of area at least. The previous record holder for largest plant was an aspen tree in Utah nicknamed Pando, which has cloned itself into a similar colony connected by one root system. Pando covers just 0.4 km2 (0.2 miles2), meaning the seagrass is over 400 times more expansive. That said, Pando would likely be larger in terms of biomass.