1. Sunflower
In the dense primeval forests and vast swamps of the Amazon River Basin in South America, there grows a terrifying man-eating plant called Sunflower. Whorl of flowers. The leaves of Sunflower are generally about 1 meter long, and the flowers are scattered on the leaves.
If people accidentally touch it or pick it, those slender leaves will immediately stretch out from all around like bird claws, pulling the person tightly and dragging them down in the wet. On the grass, until people can't move. At this time, the big spiders hiding on the sunflower swarmed onto the victim and had a delicious meal. When the spider eats the human body, the feces excreted by the spider become fertilizer for the sunflower.
2. Man-eating tree
In some places in Madagascar, Africa, there is a tree that can eat people. It is shaped like a huge pineapple, about 3 meters high, with a cylindrical trunk and snake-like branches, so the locals call it the "snake tree". This tree is extremely sensitive, and when a bird lands on its branches, it is quickly grabbed and lost. The American botanist Riesle personally experienced the power of the snake tree in 1937: When he accidentally touched a branch, his hand was quickly entangled. It took a lot of effort to break free, but the back of his hand was pulled off. A big piece of meat.
3. Walking tree
There is an interesting and strange plant called Selaginella growing in South America. Whenever the climate is dry and there is severe water shortage, it will pull its roots out of the soil, transform itself, and curl its whole body into a ball shape, becoming light and round. As long as there is a little wind, it will Can roll on the ground with the wind. Once rolled to a place with sufficient moisture, the ball will quickly open and return to its "true appearance". The roots drilled back into the soil and settled down temporarily. ?
4. Viviparous plants
On the beaches of some tropical seasides, a community of viviparous plants—mangroves—grows. The seeds of this kind of mangrove do not fall off when mature, but continue to develop on the mother tree until they grow into rod-shaped seedlings with supporting and breathing roots. They fall to the beach mud with the wind and grow into a forest independently.
5. Warm-blooded plants
Australian scientists have discovered some "warm-blooded plants". The temperature of plant flowers always remains constant regardless of the external environment. They named these plants "warm-blooded plants." For example, the temperature of kudzu flowers is about 38°C, but when the outside temperature reaches 20°C, its temperature is still maintained at about 40°C. The temperature-regulating ability of warm-blooded plants is to use their flowers as a miniature environment to attract insects and increase the probability of pollination.
6. Hot lip grass
Hot lip grass generally grows in the tropical jungles of Trinidad and Tobago and Costa Rica. What is interesting is that the flowers of this strange plant It usually blooms between two "lips". After a heavy rain in the jungle, a small flower was held in the middle of the fresh "lips", making it even more enchanting.
7. Camouflaged "Lithops"
Lithops lives in the desert areas of southern Africa. Its color and shape are exactly like pebbles. The leaves are thick and juicy and wrapped in pebbles. , can store water. Lithops have golden yellow flowers, which are very beautiful, and each plant only has one flower, but it only blooms for one day and then withers.
Lithops looks like this, of course, to deceive animals and avoid being eaten. Lithops likes to be in the company of gravel and rocks, and it would be difficult to survive without this environment.
8. Laughing Tree
In Kigali, the capital of Rwanda in eastern Africa, there is a Zhimidaranhad Botanical Garden. There is a species in the garden that can laugh "Ha! Ha!" The sound of the tree. The laughing tree is a small tree that can grow up to seven or eight meters tall. It has a dark brown trunk and oval leaves. Between each branch grows a fruit, shaped like a bell. There are many small ball-like pistils growing inside the peel, which can roll in the peel. There are many small spots like holes on the shell of the fruit. Whenever the breeze blows, the skin rolls inside and makes a sound of "Ha! Ha!".
9. Centenarian leaves
In the narrow desert strip near the coast in southwest Africa, looking from a distance, there are some things like big tree stumps growing here and there. It's called Centennial Leaf.
The centenarian leaf looks very strange. The thing that looks like a tree stump is its stem, which is less than 30 centimeters high but very thick, about 60 centimeters in diameter. Although the centenary leaf has only two leaves, it is closely related to its life and can grow for more than 100 years, so it is called the centenary leaf. This is the longest-lived leaf in the plant kingdom.
10. Spindle tree
Spindle tree grows on the Brazilian plateau in South America. From a distance, it looks like giant spindles stuck in the ground. The spindle tree is 30 meters high, tapered at both ends, and swollen in the middle. The diameter at the thickest part can reach 5 meters, and it stores about 2 tons of water. During the rainy season, it absorbs a large amount of water, stores it, and supplies its own consumption during the dry season.
Spindle trees, like Traveler's Banana, can provide water for travelers in the desert. As long as people dig a small hole in the tree, fresh and thirst-quenching "drink" can flow out continuously, solving people's urgent need for water in the vast sea of ??sand.