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When was the first plant on earth?


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Plants:

  1. Plants are an important part of the environment.
  2. Plants provide oxygen, wood, medicines, and food, bringing rain to the earth.
  3. These are autotrophs as they make their food during the process of photosynthesis.
  4. Scientists speculate that the first land plants appeared as early as 850 mya.
  5. Cooksonia is generally considered to be the oldest known fossil of a vascular plant and is dated to only 425 million years ago in the late Early Silurian.
  6. It is a small plant, only a few centimeters tall.

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