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Which plant is the largest plant in the world?

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The `General Sherman` is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) tree located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, California. By volume, it is the largest known living single stem tree on Earth, making it a candidate for the largest plant in the solar system.
Depending on further clarification of the question, it's probably the General Sherman tree, a Giant Sequoia.

We're not quite 100% sure, but we believe there is no life in our solar system outside of Earth. And even if there was, having evolved separately, it is unlikely that such life would fall into our neat taxonomic system and its five kingdoms. So the question, really, is what is the largest plant ON EARTH?

But you have to be clear what you mean by "largest". Tallest? Most massive? Most voluminous? Most ground area covered? You could get very different answers based on what you mean by "largest".

You also have to be clear about whether you're talking about a SINGLE ORGANISM or a COLONY of organisms. For example, "The Aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) forms large stands of genetically identical trees (technically, stems) connected by a single underground root system. These trees form through root sprouts coming off an original parent tree, though the root system may not remain a single unit in all specimens. The largest known fully-connected Aspen is a grove in Utah nicknamed Pando, and some experts call it the largest organism in the world,[1] by mass or volume.[2] It covers 0.43 km2 (106 acres) and is estimated to weigh 6,600 short tons (6,000 t)." (pasted from Wikipedia) It is debatable whether a stand of aspens is a single organism, but if it is, it's the largest (by mass, volume, or area) plant on Earth.

If you limit the question to "single-stem" plants, the tallest plant species is the Coast Redwood. The tallest living individual in this species, Hyperion in Redwood National Park, is currently measured at 115.61 meters (379.3 feet) tall.

However, by both volume and mass, the largest plant species is the Giant Sequoia. Though generally shorter than its cousin the Coast Redwood, its trunk grows thicker, thus giving the Giant Sequoia a larger volume and mass. The largest LIVING individual of this species is the General Sherman tree in Sequoia National Park, with a volume (trunk only) of 1,489 m3 (52,600 ft3) and a mass of 1,800 metric tons.

However, the Lindsey Creek tree, a Coast Redwood that was uprooted and felled by a storm in 1905, had a volume of 2,550 m3, (90,000 ft3) and a mass of at least 3,300 metric tons.

The plant with the largest trunk circumference is the Arbol del Tule, a Montezuma Cypress in Mexico, at 35.87 meters (118.3 feet)
Populus tremuloides, the Aspen Tree, is the largest plant known to live in the Sol solar system. One specimen is known to cover .43 square kilometers and estimated to weigh 6000 metric tons.

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First of all it's:What's the largest planet in the solar system;it's Jupiter

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