DENDROLOGY

DENDROLOGY AND SOCIETY

SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF WOODY PLANTS AND THEIR MEANINGS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
About 420 mya a giant arose on the river banks of what would become North America. It feasted on the dead and grew slowly into the largest living thing on land. It was a ____ known as ____
A
Prototaxites
B
Yew tree
C
fungi
D
bacteria
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -(1992) The fungus Armillaria bulbosa is among the largest and oldest living organisms. Nature 356(2) 428-431. size of an individual fungus of the species Armillaria bulbosa. 2 They estimated that one genetically identical clone can cover 15 hectares, weigh 10, 000 Kg and survive 1, 500 years.

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