Wednesday, February 1, 2012

What is the tallest flower, the biggest flower, smallest flower, biggest seed & the smallest seed?

smallest seed is probably wild mustard, also called pepperweed. The individual seeds are so tiny they look like dust.



biggest? maybe a coconut.

What is the tallest flower, the biggest flower, smallest flower, biggest seed %26amp; the smallest seed?
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Reply:Certain epiphytic orchids of the tropical rain forest produce the world's smallest seeds, up to 35 million per ounce.



The Seychelles Island Palm -- The complete fruit, known as a "double coconut", is technically a drupe that is made up of an enormous, seed-bearing endocarp surrounded by a husk composed of a thin mesocarp and a smooth, outer exocarp. This is truly the largest seed produced by any plant on earth.



The World's Smallest Flowering Plant is a duckweed, Wolffia. Wolffia plants also produce the world's smallest flower, a bouquet of one dozen plants will easily fit on the head of a pin.



The world's largest flower is produced by a parasitic plant (Rafflesia arnoldiii) native to the Malay Archipelago. This bizarre plant lives inside climbing vines of the tropical rain forest. Like a gigantic erupting pimple, a rafflesia flower bud breaks through the bark of the host vine and expands into an enormous foul-smelling blossom up to three feet (0.9 m) in diameter and weighing up to 20 pounds. In fact, it is sometimes called the "stinking corpse lily."



Tallest flowering plant is the amazing Australian mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans); the tallest tree known to be standing at present is 322 feet (98 m). Not as tall as Redwoods, but Redwoods are NOT flowering plants but conifers.

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