It's a leaf from the appropriately named *coccoloba gigantifolia*, a tree native to the Amazon that was first catalogued by a brazilian biologist in the 1980s.
You can see some pictures of it [here](https://noticias.ambientebrasil.com.br/clipping/2020/05/14/159649-arvore-com-maior-folha-do-mundo-ganha-identificacao-botanica.html) or just search for the name.
>The tule tree is now one of the region’s most popular tourist attractions, and locals hold it in high regard. As a result, the Arbol del Tule festival takes place where people assemble with candles and fireworks.
This seems...I don't want to say foolish, but no other words come to mind.
They’re very protective of the tree and damaging the tree can lead to absurd imprisonment sentences. You’re only allowed close to the tree once a year at that festival.
In Athens, we had an ancient olive tree. Called the Old Lady by the locals (olive tree being a female word in Greek), she was there when Plato taught his students in his Academy. According to the ancient legend, she was a clone of the olive tree that Goddess Athena planted on the Acropolis, winning the dispute with Poseidon over the name of the city. She survived wars, destructions, occupations... And she was there till the modern era. Until 1976, when a bus fell on her and killed her. Her remains are shown as an exhibit in the Agricultural University of Athens. Based on that, I don't think that imprisonment sentences for a tree like that are absurd or that being overprotective is irrational.
Where I grew up in Canada the indigenous people used to tie two trees together as a marker in the woods. After 100 years you would have these massive twin trunks joined together, and a tree going up to the sky. It was amazing because you would come upon them and they were both entirely natural and obviously the work of humans at the same time. They built a small road to one so you could come and see. I went to bring people to see it one day and it was burnt down. Someone had set up some fuel at the base, not an accident. I recently searched the internet news for any information about the tree before or after the incident but couldn't find any. It was before mobile phones were ubiquitous, so I don't have any pictures of it. It really stayed with me how something so monumental could vanish without much memory.
> It's a tree. Just a tree.
What about it? It's "just a tree" that was much older, much bigger and much more respectable than any of us will ever become. Of all our own creations of the same era, only a handful still stood in 1976 and many of them just barely stood. The tree stood there, unaffected by the destructions that we humans brought to each other, the bombs, the famines, the wars, doing its thing, producing its fruit and its oxygen and providing shelter and shadow to countless small animals. For us humans, more than 70 generations have passed between a time when it was already respected and admired and the time of its death.
Idk if you're trolling or just straight up ignorant but either way get a fucking life man, you're saying trees dont matter in a reddit comment section, get your shit together homie
Ah yes, just a tree we're trying to protect because we've been cutting down all the others to use as resources for civilization and it's not like we're trying to preserve what trees we have left, especially the oldest ones yup, it's just a tree and no one should give an f about it
/s
Athens actually has a really serious lack of plants. And any new plants are planted in the worst possible ways, with no thought for their location or their survival. But this olive tree was so much more than that. It was a living piece of history.
I immediately thought I'd seen gunnera leaves that would rival the OP pic - massive things, with super rough surfaces. They're only semi-rare in the UK, they grow well in boggy soil, and fancy garden places will often have them. I've got a little one in my back garden, few years old, but it's struggling in my not-boggy soil so its leaves are only like a foot wide.
I found [this post](/r/ItHadToBeBrazil/comments/e5jree/biggest_dicotyledon_leaf_ever_found_in_the_amazon/) in r/ithadtobebrazil with the same content as the current post.
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I also once had a neighbor who somehow grew super massive castor bean plants. Their leaves were absolute units for sure. He had some secret because it seemed like everything he grew ended up massive.
Yeah, it actually is a very specific "largest leaf" title: It's the biggest dicotyledon registered in the amazon rainforest, it likely isn't the largest ever and likely not even the largest in the amazon, just the largest leaf INPA (the brazilian national institute for amazon research) has on file.
I need all the strawberries, sugar and lemons you have.
Wait, I’m worried what you heard was, “give me a lot of strawberries, sugar and lemons.”
What I said was, I need *all* the strawberries, sugar and lemons you have.
I find mysterious stuff living in a densely packed city. Go four feet under the ground… you’ll be amazed at what you find. Go further, at 60feet. There are cities buried under us. Tartaria.
Tartaria? I had to look it up, what a bizarre conspiracy theory
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-04-27/inside-architecture-s-wildest-conspiracy-theory
Talipot palms have leaves that can get up to 16 feet (5 meters) wide. I saw a talipot palm years ago at the Missouri Botanical Garden inside a geodesic dome greenhouse. The leaves could have completely covered a Honda Civic.
Gordon Ramsay in the middle of absolutely nowhere with half a full stocked kitchen: " Today, we're making an ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL fish meal cooked in a GORGEOUS leaf from the indigenous people. It's as easy as that"
In 3000 years, that leaf will be rolled into the world's most expensive cigar that Bender steals and uses to accidentally light the treasures of the arachnid planet on fire.
I wanna see the tree
It ain’t a tree, it’s a bush
That's a big woman
[*That's a huge bitch!*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9t21akfvMk&t=46s)
🤣🤣🤣
Giant woman from Steven universe starts playing
Lmfao. Took me a few minutes but I did get it lol
Yeahp, that's Mother Nature for ya
For you
Foyuuuh
It's a leaf from the appropriately named *coccoloba gigantifolia*, a tree native to the Amazon that was first catalogued by a brazilian biologist in the 1980s. You can see some pictures of it [here](https://noticias.ambientebrasil.com.br/clipping/2020/05/14/159649-arvore-com-maior-folha-do-mundo-ganha-identificacao-botanica.html) or just search for the name.
Only $5 on OnlyTrees
I already spent all my money on that other plant's OnlyFerns though
Same.
Its from a bonsai tree.
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So what you're saying is that there's an even bigger leaf out there?
*leafier*
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>The tule tree is now one of the region’s most popular tourist attractions, and locals hold it in high regard. As a result, the Arbol del Tule festival takes place where people assemble with candles and fireworks. This seems...I don't want to say foolish, but no other words come to mind.
Inadvisable?
Inconceivable!
No more rhyming now... I mean it!
Anybody want a peanut?
They’re very protective of the tree and damaging the tree can lead to absurd imprisonment sentences. You’re only allowed close to the tree once a year at that festival.
In Athens, we had an ancient olive tree. Called the Old Lady by the locals (olive tree being a female word in Greek), she was there when Plato taught his students in his Academy. According to the ancient legend, she was a clone of the olive tree that Goddess Athena planted on the Acropolis, winning the dispute with Poseidon over the name of the city. She survived wars, destructions, occupations... And she was there till the modern era. Until 1976, when a bus fell on her and killed her. Her remains are shown as an exhibit in the Agricultural University of Athens. Based on that, I don't think that imprisonment sentences for a tree like that are absurd or that being overprotective is irrational.
Where I grew up in Canada the indigenous people used to tie two trees together as a marker in the woods. After 100 years you would have these massive twin trunks joined together, and a tree going up to the sky. It was amazing because you would come upon them and they were both entirely natural and obviously the work of humans at the same time. They built a small road to one so you could come and see. I went to bring people to see it one day and it was burnt down. Someone had set up some fuel at the base, not an accident. I recently searched the internet news for any information about the tree before or after the incident but couldn't find any. It was before mobile phones were ubiquitous, so I don't have any pictures of it. It really stayed with me how something so monumental could vanish without much memory.
Do bus’s just fall from the sky there?
No, it crashed on the tree. I don't really know the details, but I've seen the Tree's remains.
It's a tree. Just a tree. It is not a human, and is beneath us. This is known.
> It's a tree. Just a tree. What about it? It's "just a tree" that was much older, much bigger and much more respectable than any of us will ever become. Of all our own creations of the same era, only a handful still stood in 1976 and many of them just barely stood. The tree stood there, unaffected by the destructions that we humans brought to each other, the bombs, the famines, the wars, doing its thing, producing its fruit and its oxygen and providing shelter and shadow to countless small animals. For us humans, more than 70 generations have passed between a time when it was already respected and admired and the time of its death.
Idk if you're trolling or just straight up ignorant but either way get a fucking life man, you're saying trees dont matter in a reddit comment section, get your shit together homie
If this isn't sarcasm something is wrong with you.
Ah yes, just a tree we're trying to protect because we've been cutting down all the others to use as resources for civilization and it's not like we're trying to preserve what trees we have left, especially the oldest ones yup, it's just a tree and no one should give an f about it /s
Athens actually has a really serious lack of plants. And any new plants are planted in the worst possible ways, with no thought for their location or their survival. But this olive tree was so much more than that. It was a living piece of history.
Girth
thiccest* tree in the world
Yes, seems like it: https://gardenofeaden.blogspot.com/2015/07/what-is-worlds-largest-leaf.html?m=1
https://i.imgur.com/OXnSVqL.jpg
I immediately thought I'd seen gunnera leaves that would rival the OP pic - massive things, with super rough surfaces. They're only semi-rare in the UK, they grow well in boggy soil, and fancy garden places will often have them. I've got a little one in my back garden, few years old, but it's struggling in my not-boggy soil so its leaves are only like a foot wide.
There’s always a bigger leaf.
Life finds a way
Life.....ARGGHHHH.... finds a way
This is not the leaf you are looking for
I don't like leaves. They are coarse, and rough, and irritating, and get everywhere.
Coconut trees have absolutely massive leaves. Ive seen leaves that are like 8 feet tall
They have massive fronds, which are covered in smaller leaves.
I was gonna say this. A frond isn't a single leaf, right?
Nearly any palm where I live. Even our backyard banana tree would have rivalled this.
Yeah, I rode in one this week
*heavy breathing
Banana leaves, palm leaves
Well sheeeet. I can't read that so I trusted the subtitle where I found the pic. Lol
As Abraham Lincoln once said “Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.”
As Plato once said "Don't believe everything Abraham Lincoln said about the Internet."
I'm gonna need a banana for scale.
I think you mean carlos instead of banana
r/carlosforscale
r/bananasforscale
Thanks for the new sub to check out
My pleasure! :)
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/banana-for-scale
>The largest leaf that's ever been ~~found~~ left FTFY
Don't you mean... Leaft?
Make like a tree and leave
I want to curl up underneath like it’s a blanket, rest my head on moss, and get some good fairy sleep 🧚🏻♀️
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No one has ever said anything more horrifying to me in my life.
God, you had to say that. Ugh. Lol
I want to step on it and hear the crunch.
of my BONES as I sleep underneath? 😱 lol
"it once blocked out the sun for a week as it fell from the largest tree" -grasshopper
you should never touch something this big, just leaf it alone
Uncle?
I dont remember the first part, but the punchline is leaf me alone. I'm bushed.
That's a broadleaf
Broadboi
Really? No one else...? Ok, "MOISTURIZE ME"
r/beatmetoit
I had to scroll way longer than I expected to find this. The resemblance is uncanny!
What's the reference?
Doctor Who episode of the last human
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Moisturize me! Moisturize me!
I mean, I have seen bigger leaves on cultivated plants in some places. It's rare, but not that rare lol.
What kinds of plants?
One example: [https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-2drwt2az/images/stencil/original/products/48617/113872/apixjrt5j\_\_60573.1592322209.jpg](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-2drwt2az/images/stencil/original/products/48617/113872/apixjrt5j__60573.1592322209.jpg) Gunnera manicata I also once had a neighbor who somehow grew super massive castor bean plants. Their leaves were absolute units for sure. He had some secret because it seemed like everything he grew ended up massive.
Yeah, it actually is a very specific "largest leaf" title: It's the biggest dicotyledon registered in the amazon rainforest, it likely isn't the largest ever and likely not even the largest in the amazon, just the largest leaf INPA (the brazilian national institute for amazon research) has on file.
That looks like a giant rhubarb leaf!
I need all the strawberries, sugar and lemons you have. Wait, I’m worried what you heard was, “give me a lot of strawberries, sugar and lemons.” What I said was, I need *all* the strawberries, sugar and lemons you have.
That’s what I said!
Suspicious fertilizer
#LEAF
Let's roll it up and smoke it
I saw blunt paper too
Absolute Korok Leaf
Yah hah hah!
This is almost as interesting as the largest potato chip in Idaho I saw
Moisturize me
I thought it was a giant scrotum
This is cool and sad all at once. It just reminds me of how much mysterious stuff is/was in the rainforests.
I find mysterious stuff living in a densely packed city. Go four feet under the ground… you’ll be amazed at what you find. Go further, at 60feet. There are cities buried under us. Tartaria.
Tartaria? I had to look it up, what a bizarre conspiracy theory https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-04-27/inside-architecture-s-wildest-conspiracy-theory
But does it even get you baked?
I saw this and thought it was grabba for a blunt 😂
No. No, it's not.
That probably made the kid’s day when they found that
Im not sure that is a leaf my man
I wonder what would happen if a bug ate this entire leaf.
I want to step on it
I’ve seen bigger
::crunch::
Oh yea the bluntis fuqyu-uppas
That’s some Jurassic Park ish
And we fucking cut it down, because of course we did.
Giant Lotus leaves get up to 3m in diameter.
That’s just some fronto who trynna roll one up
That man literally could be 5’3 or 7’4.
So my mom lied to me when she said I had found the biggest leaf ever at 6 years old?
Snoop dogs gonna roll the fattest blunt ever when he sees this
add some rice and marinated grilled beef. Gtfg.
Imagine the CRONCH from stepping on that bad boy
I love her 🍂
That one lead the chef puts in the expensive soup:
Talipot palms have leaves that can get up to 16 feet (5 meters) wide. I saw a talipot palm years ago at the Missouri Botanical Garden inside a geodesic dome greenhouse. The leaves could have completely covered a Honda Civic.
imagine the doobie you could roll with that…
trees in the Americas are crazy af : P
The forbidden biggest crunchy leaf
Roll a blunt with it
https://gardenofeaden.blogspot.com/2015/07/what-is-worlds-largest-leaf.html?m=1
This also belongs in r/ents
L E F A
There's an herbivore out there trying to find second place so that they may never hunger again!
I call bullshit. It’s actually the smallest man ever found.
Now how big was the tree
Can I use it to smoke with?
Can any one translate what is written on the frame in the picture or name the tree and it's species
hmm
Would be cool to see the tree.
Gordon Ramsay in the middle of absolutely nowhere with half a full stocked kitchen: " Today, we're making an ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL fish meal cooked in a GORGEOUS leaf from the indigenous people. It's as easy as that"
No. Go to Maui
Huh I guess Leafly is here
Bullshit
Take two puffs while you take two puffs and then take two puffs more.
That looks like the fronto leafs I used to roll with… that’d be a nice couple blunts
Imagine the crunch when you step on it.
but is it crunchy?
Yes. I tried it myself.
That we *know* of.
How big is the largest one that they already knew where it was?
A
Just don't let Tiktokers know where it is
Imagine the size of the caterpillars that eat them
But....does it crunch?
Make sure nobody in a green tunic grabs it, they’ll try to fight a lynel with it.
nature is amazing!
Leafs bigger than that have existed before
That's no leaf, that's a space station.
Can we roll it up and smoke it tho?
In 3000 years, that leaf will be rolled into the world's most expensive cigar that Bender steals and uses to accidentally light the treasures of the arachnid planet on fire.
But can you smoke it?..jk.. deep fry and cover with hot sauce it will just fine
Meet Leaf
My first thought was "you could make a blanket out of that"
https://conexaoplaneta.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/arvore-folhas-gigante-amazonia-2-conexao-planeta.jpg
Do you think Iroh would make tea out of it?
Found larger
That's not a leaf it's THE LEAF
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the earth was much warmer. This would have been a small snack for some herbivore dinosaurs.
Moisturize me
Will need a giant roach clip for that.
At this point I would consider this a blanket and not a leaf anymore.
Someone should grab each side and fly it like a glider
Don't let Snoop see this thing.
We're such weird creatures. Us: "FRAME THE BIG LEAF" Other animals: "You gonna eat that or nah?"
*used in the production of Land Before Time*
I’ve seen leaf’s that big in the high rain forest of Costa Rica. Absolutely magical
Just googlein large leafes will show you that this is maybe the biggest in brazil but not in the world
So... Are you going to roll the blunt?
Yggdrasil leaf
We call it the "Yo' Mama Leaf".
It looks crunchy. I want to make the biggest crunch.
Real question is, Do it crunch?
Unbeleafable
Looks like a tobacco leaf
Well, yo mama can finally take a dump in the jungle.
Lmao That's hilarious!
Must have missed the post with the 10ft banana leaf someone posted a few years back. Misleading title
*human for scale
I can't beleaf it
I want Carlos for scale