The universe really stores the extraordinary riches of life. Every corner of the region in the world, has a unique flora distinctly different.
What are the 10 unique plants that will certainly make us more love the planet earth with all its contents.
1. Giant Tree Baobab
°photography Giant tree Baobab
This is the world's largest island island identity tree, Madagascar. The name Baobab is commonly used for the genus Adansonia which consists of eight tree species. This tree is also present in some countries in Africa and Australia.
Baobab is often nicknamed the bottle tree. Not only the shape that is like a bottle, but also because kemampunannya store thousands of liters of water on the trunk. This tree also has a long lifetime, which is up to more than 1,000 years.
2. Dragon Blood Tree
°Photography of dragon's blood tree.
Dragon blood tree (Dracaena Cinnabari) is an endemic plant of the Socotra archipelago in Yamana. The tree was first described by Isaac Bayley Balfour in 1882 is shaped umbrella with a lot of branches.
This tree is called the dragon's blood because of the red blood sap that comes out of its trunk. Ancient people used this sap as a dye.
3. Victoria Amazonica, The Giant Leaf
°photography The giant leaf
This is the largest flower plant of the family Nymphaeaceae or Water Lilies. What is amazing about this plant is its wide leaves, up to 3 meters in diameter, with the tip upwards so it does not overlap with other leaves. The bottom of the thorns that serves to block any animal to eat it.
Another uniqueness, the leaves are floating on the water is able to withstand loads up to 50 kg. The interest is quite large (diameter 40 cm), which can only be seen at night. This unique plant can be found in the basin of the Amazon River, South America.
4. Tumbuo
°photography Tumbuo
Plant called latin Welwitschia mirabilis is very amazing. Tumbuo only consists of two leaves, one solid stem, and root. That is all! The two leaves continue to grow to resemble a hairy mane like in an alien film.
The trunk of the tree does not grow upward, but only hardened a height of about 2 meters with a width of 8 meters. Estimated, age can reach 1500 years despite living in the most extreme environmental conditions though.
Plants found only in small areas in the Namibian and southern deserts of Angola can survive five years without rain. Local people call tumbuo as Onyanga, which means desert onion.
5. Monkey-faced Angrek
°photography Angry-faced monkeys
The scientific name of this flower is Dracula simia. Dracula means a small dragon as seen on two long spurs that resemble a dragon. Simia is a term that explains that this flower resembles a monkey.
This monkey orchid is usually hidden at an altitude of nearly 2,000 meters in the forests of southeastern Peru and Ecuador.
6. Lip Flowers
°photography Flower lips
This plant is called Psychotria elata. Small plants that grow in this tropical forest has a flower known as lip flower because it resembles the lips of a woman with red lipstick.
Found in tropical rainforest in Central and South America such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador, this plant seems to have evolved to have a unique shape. Interestingly again, the seductive red color is the main attraction to lure the presence of pollinators like hummingbirds and butterflies.
7. Hydnora Africana
°photography Hyndora Africana.
Hyndora Africana is one of the most unique plants in southern Africa, precisely on the west coast of Namibia, northward along Swaziland, Botswana, to Ethiopia. When viewed visually, Hyndora Africana does not look like a plant. However, the form is somewhat strange to make this plant looks amazing.
In fact, some species of this plant are similar to mushrooms. Hydnora africana does not grow as a cultivable plant because of its dependence on its host plants. In the wild, it grows through seeds spread by birds and small mammals.
8. Carrion Flower
°photography Giant carcass flowers.
The corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanium) is a tribal plants (Araceae) that endemic Sumatra, Indonesia, well known as the largest flower (plural) in the world.
The flowers are very large and tall, shaped like a phallus (actually a cob) surrounded by a large flower of flowers. The flowers are single and protogini: the receptive female flowers first, then followed by the male flower, as a mechanism to prevent self-pollination.
Currently, carcass flowers are scattered throughout the world, mainly owned by botanical gardens or specialist breeders. Uniquely, many visitors who come just want to "enjoy" the smell.
9. Rafflessia
°photography Rafflesia.
Rafflesia or giant padma flowers are one of the richest biodiversity found in Indonesia's tropical forests. Rafflesia is a flower that can give off bad smell. However, the public is often confused with the mention of a giant carcass flower (Amorphophallus titanum).
Although both smelled of carrion, the type of rafflesia (rafflesia spp) and the giant carcass bungai is a different type. If the rafflesia form of the flower is widened, then the giant carcass flower has an elongated long flower. If rafflesia is an endoparasite plant, then the carcass flower is a whole plant that grows from the tubers. Indonesia, is listed as home to 17 species of rafflesia.
10. Pando
°Photography Pando the heaviest organism of the planet earth.
At first glance, it seems nothing special with these trees because it looks just the usual trees in the forest Fishlake National Park, Utah. However, thanks to genetic testing, it is known that the forest covering an area of 46 hectares is actually a single clonal organism that grows from an ancient single seed. This tree is spreading because its roots are capable of sending buds that grow into what looks like individual trees.
Since all the trees in this forest (all about 47,000 trees) are part of the same organism, the behavior of the forest is also remarkable. For example, all forests transition simultaneously from winter to spring and use of extensive root tissues to distribute water and nutrients from excessive trees to underprivileged trees.
This condition corresponds to the name pando which means "I spread". The forest is estimated to be 80,000 years old, and overall estimated to weigh 6,600 tons, making it the heaviest and oldest organism on earth.
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