You want believe How tiny the world's smallest fruit is An Ant.
It's easy to be impressed by big things. The blue whale, the African elephant, and the giant sequoia are all easy to spot, if you ever get lucky enough to see them in person. But sometimes the smaller things—particularly the things that you can barely see with the naked eye—get overlooked.
Even so, there can be no doubt that the Wolffia globse is an impressive plant, even if it would look like a tiny speck in the palm of your hand. Better known as Asian water-meal, it's the world's smallest flowering plant, less than one-third of an inch wide at its largest.
A kind of duckweed, Asian water-meal grows quickly, spreading across the surfaces of bodies of water at an incredible rate, floating without needing roots, stems, or leaves to survive. Mainly it reproduces asexually, but very occasionally it flowers, and from the flowers comes the smallest fruit in the world, known as an utricle .
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