Sakhalin Island is known as the largest island in Russia, and has been a point of dispute between Japan and Russia for centuries. On this island, plants that normally only reach an adult’s knee height grow many times higher, taller than humans.

According to a report in the Russian newspaper Izvestia in 2009, Russian scientists have long studied giant plants that grow in certain areas on Sakhalin Island.

The report shows that there are 3m high buckwheat trees and 5m high burdock trees. Photos of these giant trees are spread on social networks, showing that they are completely real.

Researchers from the Institute of Geology and the Russian Academy of Sciences said they conducted studies on unusually large herbaceous plants in 12 different areas in the south of the islands of Sakhalin and Kunashir, discovered giant plants that only grow in certain areas of the islands.

They appear to be influenced by frequent tectonic activity on the island, which generates significant heat.

Obviously the impressive size of these plants has nothing to do with what type of plant they are per se. Because when planted elsewhere, they will grow to their normal size.

Giant plants grow on land, waterlogged areas located on faults in the Earth’s crust, through which large amounts of heat and petroleum hydrocarbons are supplied to plant roots.

Higher concentrations of copper and chromium compounds have also been identified as a factor in the extraordinary growth of plants.

Netizens have mixed reactions, some believe it and some don’t believe it.