What is the tallest flowering plant?
Eucalyptus regnans is the tallest of all flowering plants, and possibly the tallest of all plants, although no living specimens can make that claim. The tallest measured living specimen, named Centurion, stands 100. Tasmania. Of herbaceous plants, plants without persistent woody growth above ground, Musa ingens is the largest. It can reach about 15 m tall with a pseudostem diameter of around a meter. It also holds the record for the longest petioles or leaf stalks of any plant.The banana plant is the largest herbaceous flowering plant. All the above-ground parts of a banana plant grow from a structure called a corm. Plants are normally tall and fairly sturdy with a treelike appearance, but what appears to be a trunk is actually a pseudostem composed of multiple leaf-stalks (petioles).
What is the fastest growing tall plant?
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