Showing posts with label Plant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plant. Show all posts

Thursday, 16 June 2016

Ever Heard Of Suicide Palm Or Underground Orchid Or Baseball Plant Or Bleeding Tooth Plant Or Living Stone Plant Or Golf Ball Plant!!!

Find out the details of these amazing plants

 

Underground Orchid

This unusual orchid spends its entire life underground. It even flowers underground, in late May and early June, producing more than a hundred cream to reddish flowers, and a strong fragrance.

It only lives in the Broom bush shrub land in western Australia. It lacks chlorophyll so cannot draw energy from sunlight like most plants. Instead it takes nutrients from the roots of broom bush, by parasitizing the fungi associated with it.

There are thought to be fewer than 50 plants. The species has not been assessed by the IUCN, but Western Australia classes it as critically endangered.



Bleeding tooth fungus Or Hydnellum Peckii


Hydnellum peckii is a special type of fungi that produce blood or juice like fluid on its surface. This plant is also known as ‘bleeding tooth fungus’. It is the Scarlet pigment causes blood like the color on the fluid of this plant. This strange plant mainly found across North America and Europe. It is edible, but the blood like fluid is extremely bitter in taste.

Hydnellum peckii has an unpleasant odor. The color of fluids on Hydnellum peckii can be varied as orange or pink. 



Living stones Or Lithop


Lithop can be described as living stones, a plant that exactly look like stones or pebbles. In fact, its unique shape causes by the merging of two separate leaves at the outer edges of the plant. The leaves of the lithop plant grow in the very rainy season.This extremely strange plant species mainly found in South Africa.
 

The thick pebble like leaves is main visible parts of lithops. Unlike other plants the leaves of lithop are in brown or gray. Lithops can be found in various colors like white, gray, pink and purple. Lithops will live for more than 50 year

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Golf Plant

Found only in the mountains of Queretaro in Mexico, the golf ball is a small white-ish cactus that looks, you've guessed it, like a golf ball. Its beautiful pink flowers have made it popular among horticulturists, so many wild cacti are illegally collected. As a result, the population has dropped more than 95% over the last 20 years.



Welwitschia Mirabilis

Welwitschia Mirabilis is a unique plant that only found in the desert of Namibia. The estimated lifespan of this strange looking plant is between 500 and 1500 years. It can survive within many extreme weather conditions. The most interesting thing about Welwitschia is the plant only has two leaves that grow continuously over time.  This strange species also have separate male and female plants.


Suicide Palm

The suicide palm is a gigantic palm found only in remote parts of north-west Madagascar. It lives for about 50 years, then flowers only once, and dies soon after.

Suicide palms were discovered in 2005, by a cashew plantation manager during a family outing, and formally described in 2008. With trunks reaching 18m in height, and huge fan-leaves up to 5m across, the palms can be seen on Google Earth. There are only about 90 in the wild.


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Baseball Plant Or Euphorbia obesa


It is generally known as euphorbia obesa native to South Africa. The plant has exactly the same shape of a baseball. It is an unbranched plant with an average height of 20 cm. The special species of baseball plant is protected by national nature conservation as it is very rare in the world.
 

Male and female flowers of euphorbia obesa grow on different plants.Baseball plants are quite toxic, makes severe skin problems. 


Venus Flytrap
Venus flytrap also known as dionaea muscipula is a carnivorous plant. It means the plant consumes small insects and animals as food. Venus flytraps can be found in the Eastern Carolia especially in wet inhabitants. Venus flytrap has special lobes to trap the prey animals.

The venus flytrap close its lobes immediately when the insects comes in contact with the plant.This plant will digest the insects within a time span of 10 days.The leaves venus flytrap opens its lobes widely to catch the prey


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Pitcher Plant


The pitcher plant is another type of carnivorous plant native to South East Asia. The plant has an attractive deep red color. The attractive smell of pitcher plants helps it to easily catch the prey. The insects and small animals become main preys of pitcher plants. It is said to be some species of pitcher plant can even consume mice.

The deep cavity that filled with special fluid help to catch the prey.The plant has most mysterious leaf structure and features special digestive enzymes


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Thursday, 2 June 2016

Some plants release oxygen in night! Truth or Myth

So we all have heard some of the trees release oxygen even in the night. But is it really a truth or a myth. Lets decipher this fact scientifically but in short.    

 

 Some plants which releases oxygen in night.
Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum)
Peepal(Ficus religiosa)


Snake Plant(Sansevieria trifasciata)



 

The differences in climatic conditions and ecosystems have resulted in different types of photosynthesis in plants.  The three types photosynthesis are C3, C4 and CAM photosynthesis. 


But we will talk about CAM as it happens in night & it is the reason given by every one supporting oxygen at night fact.

 

This type of photosynthesis is most common in desert plants where water is at a premium.  

 

The most important benefit of CAM to the plant is the ability to leave most leaf stomata closed during the day thus saving 97% of water it absorbs.


But from where does it gets CO2 in morning if stomata is closed?????

 

 

 

In CAM photosynthesis, CO2 is taken up only at night.In the morning, sunlight driving the light reactions allows the stored carbon to be combined into sugars.



A common misconception is "Photosynthesis is used to generate oxygen"

  •  Photosynthesis is the process by which green plants, algae and some forms of bacteria use energy from sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose.

CONSLUSION:

Yes there are some plants which absorb CO2 even in night but they release oxygen only during the day

But definitely they reduce CO2 level in the night.

 

For better explanation regarding process of CAM refer following articles & Diagrams.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crassulacean_acid_metabolism

http://photosynthesiseducation.com/photosynthesis-in-plants/

http://w3.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/photosynthesis.htm

 

Friday, 27 May 2016

Why We People Plant More Trees



As we learned in biology, trees are essential to life. They create the very air we breathe and filter air pollution.

What you may not know is that trees also build soil and help soak up storm water before it can create a flood,
and they offer energy-saving shade that reduces global warming and creates habitat for thousands of different species.

Trees also help to reduce ozone levels in urban areas.


Most importantly, trees sequester carbon, helping to remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the air,
which cools the earth. In fact, a mature canopy tree absorbs enough carbon and releases enough oxygen to sustain two human beings!
The carbon storage capacity of forests is approximately three times as large as the pool of carbon in the atmosphere.

If forests are changed, reduced, or eliminated, the captured carbon goes into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO2).

Despite their importance to life as we know it, humans have cut down half of all the trees on the planet so far.

Every year we cut down over 65,000 square miles of forest worldwide for paper, agriculture, building materials and fuel.

Much of this wouldn’t be necessary if we reduced, reused and recycled more, cultivated hemp for fuel and fiber,
and used sustainable and recycled materials in all our buildings.

But until this changes,
we need to put the trees back any way we can, as fast as we can!



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Thursday, 26 May 2016

Millions of Reason To Plant a Tree

   
Mother Nature Needs You.  Pledge To Plant a Tree & It Remains Named After You.


Millions of Reason To Plant a Tree.
Plant a Trees in Memory.
Plant a Trees in Celebration.
Plant a Tree For Someone You Love
"Plant a Tree Because You Care"