Our world is amazing and beautiful. For example, plants that are more like immigrants from another planet.
Welvichia
Life expectancy is from four hundred to one and a half thousand years. Consists of several long (up to eight meters) fleshy leaves. It grows in Namibia, that is, in the place where rains are a rare occurrence. In this connection, it can live without moisture for about five years. Provided that fog falls, this period easily increases.
Aborigines with great pleasure to fry leaves on a fire and argue that it is delicious.
The largest flower in the world
Rafflesia is the largest flower in the world. (about two meters wide) and smelling foul. The plant is a parasite that has no root or stems. It was first described in 1818 by Thomas Stanford Ruffles, in whose honor he was named. Due to the outgoing smell of rotting meat, it attracts insects, mainly flies, which pollinate it and help to spread.
Tallest flower in the world
Amorphophallus giant - the tallest flower in the world. Like Rafflesia, this flower has a foul smell. It is also called: “cadavericflower”,“ Voodoo lily ”and“ snake palm ”. Over its entire short life (about forty years), it blooms just a couple of times, and if you saw flowering, then you are just lucky!
A plant that catches insects
Venus flytrap is a plant that catches insects. To do this, he has special devices, for example, traps, which are easily and quickly slammed, just have to fly to touch the surface of the flower and of course the bait, a specific smell. Leaves reach seven centimeters in length. It grows in marshy areas of the eastern coast of the United States of America, but recently it has been bred and sold as a houseplant.
Euphorbia fat
This plant is more like round pebbles. It grows in South Africa. Any elements of vegetation are completely absent, rarely small flat branches appear on it. It grows up to 30 centimeters in length, and 10 in width.
Adansonius (Baobab)
A tree with roots at the top, that’s what it looks like if you look at it from a distance. Madagascar Baobab Grandinho grows to 25 meters. Its fruits contain more than 35 percent of oily substances.
Dracaena cinnabar red
"Umbrella on the inside" is exactly what the top of this tree looks like. The leaves look like needles, stick out and turn the crown into a kind of dome. During warm showers, flowers are poured, collected in a bunch of several pieces. If an incision is made, then reddish juice will go out of the wound, for which the dracaena received its name.
Mimosa bashful
This plant, which, from touching something on the petals, folds them and hides them. Easily pollinated by wind and various insects. Often used to decorate homes and cabinets. He is a perennial native to Africa and America.If the roots are damaged, the plant secretes a “cocktail” of toxic substancesincluding methanesulfonic, lactic, pyruvic acid and various sulfur compounds; often this leads to livestock poisoning on pastures.
Taka
Ten species of this amazing plant, up to a hundred centimeters in size, grow in the tropics (Asia, Australia, Africa, India). An unusual characteristic is the shade of flowers, they are almost black (maroon, dark violet), and similar to the wings of bats.
Jericho rose
Deserts in America will easily surprise any traveler with an extraordinary rose, when there is no rain for a long time, it seems to dry out, turns into a dry dark brown ball. But as soon as a small amount of moisture gets on it, it begins to bloom before our eyes. When dry, it can stay for a very long time.
Grows in the deserts of Central America. Remember, the amazing is near! You just need to open your eyes, tear yourself away from your computer or phone and go out to explore the world!