Sunday, May 16, 2010

What is the fastest growing plant on earth?

It can grow as much as 35 inches in one day.

What is the fastest growing plant on earth?
It's probably a species of bamboo. I'll see if I can find a link.





[edit] Yup, bamboo. Check out the link below.
Reply:"15. The World's Fastest Growing Plants


The record for the fastest growth of an individual goes to a tropical species of bamboo that reportedly reaches 100 feet (30 m) in three months. [Note: This is an unsubstantiated report. It might be only 50 feet (15 m) in three months.] Growth increments of three feet (0.9 m) a day have been recorded--an astonishing 0.0002 miles per hour. The record for total growth in length after a period of time may go to a species of marine algae. The Pacific giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) may grow up to 150 feet (46 m) or more in length, and has been clocked at 18 inches a day. It has also been estimated that if all the filamentous hyphae produced in one day by a single massive soil fungus permeating acres of forest soil were laid end to end, they could extend for nearly a mile."
Reply:rice
Reply:I wish it was a beer tree but is it bamboo?
Reply:rice
Reply:I would say that bermuda grass, what they use on golf greens but that answer night owl gave seems pretty legit damn....
Reply:i don't think there is such a plant... is there?
Reply:I swear it has to be kudzu- That stuff grows everywhere near my house and it is soooo hard to get rid of it!





Don't have any evidence though.
Reply:The kudzu
Reply:Grass


Bamboo


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