8 of the Biggest Flowers on Earth..
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Neptune Grass (Posidonia oceanica)
Snorkeler swimming near large posidonia
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Not even the quaking aspen can match the size or age of Posidonia, though. This flowering grass that proliferates in the Mediterranean Sea and off the coast of Australia grows in clonal colonies. It even produces a fruit and reproduces by means of seeds.3
One such colony, discovered in the Mediterranean in 2006, is several miles wide and believed to be hundreds of thousands of years old. Overall, the marine "flower" known also as Neptune grass covers an area of about 15,000 square miles in the Mediterranean. It plays a key role in absorbing and storing carbon dioxide, but it is currently threatened by rising water temperatures. It forms a thick meadow on sandy bottoms no deeper than 130 feet.
of 8
Neptune Grass (Posidonia oceanica)
Snorkeler swimming near large posidonia
_548901005677 / Getty Images
Not even the quaking aspen can match the size or age of Posidonia, though. This flowering grass that proliferates in the Mediterranean Sea and off the coast of Australia grows in clonal colonies. It even produces a fruit and reproduces by means of seeds.3
One such colony, discovered in the Mediterranean in 2006, is several miles wide and believed to be hundreds of thousands of years old. Overall, the marine "flower" known also as Neptune grass covers an area of about 15,000 square miles in the Mediterranean. It plays a key role in absorbing and storing carbon dioxide, but it is currently threatened by rising water temperatures. It forms a thick meadow on sandy bottoms no deeper than 130 feet.
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29 August 2023
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