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The longest monocot. It also weighed 250 pounds (110 kg). It is unknown whether it could grow this long or this heavy in the wild. Rattan Manau (Calamus manan, or Calamus ornatus (Palmae, or Arecaceae) East Indies. This one at the Buitenzorg (now Bogor) Botanic Gardens, Java, Indonesia. 787 feet (240 m) exactly. The longest exact measurement ...
Although this may be an overestimate, this is likely the longest lived animal on Earth. [64] [65] [66] Specimens of the black coral genus Leiopathes, such as Leiopathes glaberrima, are among the oldest continuously living organisms on the planet: around 4,265 years old. [67] Giant barrel sponges can live more than 2,000 years.
The gymnosperms consist of five orders of seed plants: Cupressales, Cycadales, Ginkgoales, Gnetales and Pinales. [a] They developed more than 350 million years ago, long before flowering plants, according to the fossil record. The name comes from the Greek for "naked seed"; the egg cells are not protected by ovaries, as in flowering plants. [4]
The animal kingdom boasts some incredibly long lifespans that far exceed the average human's. While humans may have an "absolute limit" of 150 years, this is just a blink of an eye compared ...
Its name means "methyl eating", "growing with the reduction of nitrate". [91] Microstomatichthyoborus bashforddeani Nichols & Griscom, 1917 - family Distichodontidae. This freshwater fish from the Congo River basin has the longest name of any extant fish. [92] Novosphingobium chloroacetimidivorans Chen et al. 2014 - family Sphingomonadaceae.
With a flower growing up to 1.5 m (5 ft) in diameter, 3–4 m (10–13 ft) in perimeter and 10–12 kg (22–26 lb) in weight, Rafflesia arnoldii is the world's current largest individual flower. They grow in the forests of Sumatra and Borneo islands of Indonesia.
The conifer division of plants includes the tallest organism, and the largest single-stemmed plants by wood volume, wood mass, and main stem circumference.The largest by wood volume and mass is the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), native to Sierra Nevada and California; it grows to an average height of 70–85 m (230–279 ft) and 5–7 m (16–23 ft) in diameter. [1]
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