The longest plant on land - white vine

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In the tropical rain forests of Africa, there are towering giant trees and exotic flowers and plants, and there are even "ghost ropes" that can trap you and make you fall. This is the white vine that winds into countless circles around the big tree. How long is the longest plant in the open field?

What does White Vine look like?

White vine is also called provincial vine and is also produced in Yunnan, my country. Rattan chairs, rattan beds, rattan blue, rattan bookshelves, etc. are all made of white rattan. White vine is a member of the palm family that is often planted in gardens. It mainly grows in tropical rain forests, and can be found on Hainan Island in China. The white vine has countless branches and long drooping stems, forming many strange circles, so people nicknamed it "Guisuo".

White vine stems are generally very thin, like the mouth of a small wine cup Thick, some are thinner. It has a bunch of feathery leaves on the top with spikes on the surface. The upper part of the stem to the tip is long and strong, and is also covered with large, sharp, downward-curving hard thorns.

It is like a long whip with thorns, swaying in the wind , as soon as it encounters a big tree, it clings tightly to the trunk and quickly grows bunches of new leaves. Then it continues to climb up the trunk, and the lower leaves gradually fall off. After the white vine climbed to the top of the big tree, it kept growing, but there was nothing to climb on. So its longer and longer stems fell down, using the big tree as a pillar, and twisted around the big tree. Countless strange circles.

How long is the white vine?

The white vine reaches 300 meters from root to top, which is twice as long as the tallest eucalyptus tree in the world. According to data, the record length of white vines is as high as 400 meters. Are there any longer plants on land than this?

But such long white vines may only exist in tropical rainforests and cannot be seen in China. As for the growth rate of the white vine, the picture below shows the blooming scene of a 300-year-old white vine. The branches are only 1 to 2 meters long. It takes thousands of years to reach hundreds of meters.

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