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World's largest plant discovered in Australia

Published on 17 Jun 2026

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  • The world's largest living plant has been identified in the shallow waters off the coast of Western Australia.
  • The sprawling seagrass, a marine flowering plant known as Posidonia australis, stretches for more than 112 miles (180 kilometers) in Shark Bay, a wilderness area protected as a World Heritage site.
  • The plant is so large because it clones itself, creating genetically identical offshoots.
Source: SarkariPariksha