There are always a few abnormal people in a group, and so are plants! Today, let's take a look at the wonderful flowers in the plant world.
1、 Mangrove: a tree that can give birth to children
Some people say it's strange to have children, but what if I'm talking about trees? yes! You heard me right! It's the tree! It's really a tree that can give birth to children. It's mangrove.
Mangrove is a unique evergreen shrub and small tree community in tropical and subtropical bays and estuarine mudflats. It has respiratory roots or prop roots. Seeds can sprout in the fruits of trees and grow into seedlings. Then they leave their mother plants and fall into the mud. It is a rare woody viviparous plant. It is estimated that there are at least 83 species of mangrove plants in the world.
Mangrove, the most wonderful plant in the world
Viviparous phenomenon - the most wonderful feature of mangrove is the so-called "viviparous phenomenon". Many seeds of mangrove plants begin to germinate in the fruit and grow into rod-shaped hypocotyls before leaving the mother. When the hypocotyl develops to a certain extent, it breaks away from the mother tree and falls into the mud on the beach. After a few hours, it can take root in the mud and grow into new plants. If it fails to take root in time, it can drift on the sea for several months with the current and take root on the coast thousands of miles away.
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2、 "Very hurt" mushroom -- bleeding tooth fungus
Haemorrhagic tooth fungus, named "hydnellum pecki", is an unusual member of the fungal family. This mushroom has many names, also known as "devil's tooth" or "strawberry with cream", but it is not toxic. People may think that the blood red liquid on the mushroom is the blood splashed on the white cap by forest animals. If you look closely, you will find that the red liquid oozes from the small holes on the mushroom. This is a kind of inedible fungus, a kind of hydnellum in bankeraceae family. It is a hydnoid species, which produces spore vertical spines on its surface.
The most wonderful plant in the world
It was found in Iran (2008) and South Korea (2010). Hydnellum peckii is a kind of mycorrhizal tree species. They form a mutually beneficial relationship. They grow on the ground alone, scattered and mass. The fruit structure usually has a funnel-shaped cap with a white edge, but the shape is variable. Its "bleeding" red juice contains anticoagulants, similar in nature to heparin.
3、 The flower with the most lips
Lip flower, the most wonderful plant in the world
Lip flower, which generally grows in tropical forests of Trinidad and Tobago and Costa Rica, is on the verge of extinction due to uncontrolled deforestation in these countries. Interestingly, the flowers of this exotic plant usually bloom and grow between two lips. The red part of the lip is not the petal in the true sense, but the bract of the flower. After a forest disease rain, fresh lips with a number of small flowers, make her more enchanting, this kind of flower in December to march of the next year. The shape of the plant evolved to attract pollinators such as hummingbirds and butterflies. Because of its gorgeous color, people call it hooker (prostitute).
The photographers of Panorama Magazine in Italy took this picture after the rain, so that those of us who live in temperate or sub frigid zones can also see the beauty of the tropical jungle.
Xiao Bian comments: the sexy red lips ~ the posture of Yao Yao is really "lips"! You're the one with the most lips of the year!
4、 Bat flower
The most wonderful plant in the world -- batflower
Tacca chantrieri, also known as Chinese black batsflowers, thrives in a warm climate. This ghost plant is mainly distributed in central and South Asia. Because of their unpleasant appearance, they are regarded as "unlucky" flowers in Malaysia. Their swaying fruits look like bats hanging upside down. 5、 Big plants like fish——
The most wonderful plant in the world -- Octopus stinky horn
Octopus stinkhorn, scientific name: sea anemone mushroom, a kind of fungus, is one of the top ten terrifying plants on the earth because it looks like an octopus and its smell is more smelly than human feces. It relies on the bad smell to attract flies and other insects to help transfer the offspring.
6、 Can you imagine yushanju?! There is a kind of flower that can spray pollen hundreds of times faster than the speed of rocket!!! This is the common bunchberry in Canada. Recently, scientists at Williams College in Massachusetts revealed this wonderful process.
The "lightning jet" of Yushan orange pollen is the fastest in the known plant world! Nepenthes (also known as Venus flytrap) takes 100 milliseconds to catch an insect, while the previously fastest Impatiens flower also takes 2.8-5.8 milliseconds to spray pollen.
The flowers of Yushan orange are star shaped. Don't look down upon them. They are no less than stone throwing machines. The catapult is a huge siege weapon in the middle ages. It has a long wooden lever with a belt attached to the top. When in use, the stones and other throwing objects are fixed with a belt, and the launcher is tightly wound. The lever force is combined with the ejection effect. The throwing objects are thrown out in a very small radian by the catapult, which is extremely powerful!
Yushanju, the most wonderful plant in the world
Yushanju spray pollen on the use of the "throwing machine principle.". At first, the four petals are tightly wrapped together. Suddenly, they snap open like lightning and close immediately, releasing the tightly pulled stamen filament in an instant. At the end of the filaments is a "projectile" - a small pollen sac filled with pollen.
Joan Edwards, who led the study, said: "when the petals open, the elastic filaments are pulled into an arc, and the instant explosive force ejects the pollen from the end of the filaments." In addition to direct spraying, yushanju also uses insects to transmit pollen. Insects such as Bumblebee can cause Yushan orange to blossom. The pollen will stick to their villi and cross pollinate as the insects "visit" more plants.