THE WORLD’S BIGGEST PLANTS.
If you ask most persons what the world’s biggest plants are they will 1 probably mention such growths as the giant trees of California, the ! wonderful eucalyptus of Australia, or i the huge banyan trees of Asia. But they would be wrong. All these ma(moths of the vegetable world are mere pigmies compared with the true i monsters which have been seen by • only a very few people, because |they grow where the human eye cannot ,icach. In the deep sea, hidden away from man, except when fierce storms tear a few of them from their secret beds, or when the deep sea dredges of some explorer, wrest them from the • abyss, ‘grow“plants that are 1,500 ft. ! long. They are brown seaweeds, with their roots in the sunless ocean bottom, where never a spark of light | filters down, and their stems reaching up through a full quarter of a mile of ocean. These plants are a natural wonder, by reason of their delicacy. ! The greatest of these plants has a 1 stem only about a quarter of an inch thick, and at the end it has a leaf, or a leaf-like growth, that is | 50ft. long—surely the longest leaf in ! the world. This leafy end is beset with great bladders, each as big as an egg. The bladders are full of air, and this buoys the vast plant up so that it stands upright in the water.
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Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 49, 10 July 1906, Page 2
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