The plant grows in the solid part of earth, the lithosphere. When water evaporates from the plant, it enters the hydrosphere, the portion if earth on kand and in the air that contains water. The atmosphere is part of the hydrosphere.
Rotational speed would increase...
v = omega . r
which means it's directly proportional to radius...
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