This self-cloning 4,500 year old plant spanning 180km is world’s oldest & largest plant

Australian researchers have discovered that the large area of seagrass in the Shark Bay region is actually a single plant that is 180 km long and spread out over 200 sq kilometres. The Posidonia australis is also sterile, it reproduces by cloning itself and has been doing so for approximately 4,500 years, making it the oldest living plant. ThePrint’s Sandhya Ramesh explains the findings.
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Supplementary reading:

Edgeloe, J et al., Proceedings of the Royal Society B (June 2022). Extensive polyploid clonality was a successful strategy for seagrass to expand into a newly submerged environment https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0538
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