Does size matter?

I'm standing in front of the humongous leaves of Gunnera, an herbaceous plant that maintains a symbiotic relationship with cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria live in water and in the soil and do photosynthesis as well as taking atmospheric nitrogen (which is inert) and transforming it into biologically useable nitrogen. Some of that nitrogen is helping these Gunnera leaves grow to the outlandish proportion shown here.

 

 

 

 

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