FLORA
| Tree, Longest-Lived Species | - | Banyan (Ficus Benganensis), (Lives over 250 years) |
| Oldest | - | Shaitoot tree at Joshimath. (Uttar Pradesh) - believe to be 1200 years old |
| Tallest | - | Fir (Abies pindrow) and deodar (Cedras deodara) - average height 76.2m |
| Largest Teak Tree | - | At Kuttampuzha range of the Malayattur Forest division (Kerala) - Girth of 7.18m and height over 55m |
| Largest Tree Canopy | - | Banyan Tree at Thimmama Marrimanu, Anantapur District (Andhra Pradesh) - covers of 2.1 Hectares and ~ 1100 prop roots |
| Biggest Tree Trunk | - | Deodar (Cedrus Deodara) - Circumference 12m of more |
| High altitude plants | - | Stellaria decumbens in Himalayas (at altitudes 20,000 ft.) |
| Smallest Plants | - | Wolfia arrhiza, a duckweed with 1mm leaves, flowers invisible to naked eye |
| Smallest Blooms | - | Pilea microphylla, blooms diameter only 1/72 of an inch |
| Largest Leaf | - | Victoria amazonica (1.5 m in diameter) even a six year old child can sit on this water plant leaf |
| Longest Flower | - | Himalayan Rhubarb grows 3-4ft. long |
| Most Poisonous Flower | - | Aconitum balfourti found in Himalayas |
| Longest Creeper | - | Elephant creeper (Entado pursaetha), length upto 1.5km |
| Slowest growing plants | - | Orchids like Lady's slipper take 17 years to flower |
| Flowering Plant (slowest) | - | Dioon (only 2.01m in thousand years) |
| Tallest Bamboo | - | Dendrocalamus giganteus (height 30.4 - 36.5m, diameter 20 - 25 cm) |
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