Largest and Smelliest Flower
The flower of rafflesia, or stinking corpse lily measures almost 1m across and weighs 11 kg.It is also World's Smelliest Flower with odour like rotting flesh.This smell attract flies and other insect that pollinate this flower.
Oldest tree- The bristlecone pines in California and Nevada,USA are almost believed to be the oldest trees. Latest research suggests that creosote bushes in the USA's Mojave Desert may be even older-some of these plants began their early life on 12,000 years ago.I cannot tell you more about these........
Tallest Tree- The World's tallest tree is called the Stratosphere Giant . It grows in the Rockefeller Forest, Humblodt RedWoods State Park California. At 112.32 m this redwood is almost three times The Statue Of Liberty in New York.
Smallest flowering plant- Wolffia, a kind of duckweed, is just 0.6 mm long and weighs as much as two grains of salt. It seed are thinniest as known-as they weigh only 70 micrograms.
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