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Found out the oldest living plant is over 80,000 years old
I was reading a random article about botany last Tuesday and stumbled on a fact about a seagrass colony in the Mediterranean. This one patch of Posidonia oceanica has been cloning itself for around 80,000 years. I had no idea a single plant could survive that long, like longer than modern humans have been around. The article said it covers 9 miles of seafloor near Formentera, Spain. It made me rethink how we define what a plant even is, since it's all the same organism connected underground. Has anyone else run into a plant age fact that sounded fake at first?
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leo2386d ago
That seagrass basically had a 80,000 year head start on civilization.
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xena_anderson6d ago
80,000 year head start" is a stretch though. That grass isn't developing writing or math, it's just sitting there doing its thing.
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