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Which is the smallest flower in the world ?


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Answer: Wolffia globosa or Water meal

Water meal or Wolffia globosa, is the smallest flower in the world. It is a bright green oval plant, noticed all over the planet, is about the size of a grain of rice. Wolffia is the smallest genus in the Lemnaceae family of aquatic plants known as duckweeds.

A part of the duckweed genus (Lemnaceae), a family comprising some of the smallest flowering plants, is water meal. Globally, there are numerous species of the genus Wolffia, all are small.


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