facts verse presents ten strange plants
in the world number one the banyan tree
the banyan tree Mika's bangle ANSYS was
originally native to india when growing
it puts down rope like roots and as they
take root in the soil they thickened to
create more tree trunks one tree can
spread out many meters in the Calcutta
Botanic Gardens there is a banyan tree
with more than 1,700 trunks that is 200
years old during Alexander the Great's
campaign in India one banyan tree is
said to a sheltered 20,000 soldiers
number two the shy plant the sensitive
or shy plant mimosa pudica is a great
curiosity the compound leaves of the
plant fold inward in 1/10 of a second
and drew with the slightest touch only
to reopen in a few minutes once native
to South and Central America today it is
a pan tropical we'd found on all
continents the plants shyness deters
animals from eating it while grazing
number three the bottle tree the 8
species of boa bab tree genis 8 and
Sonia are also known as bottle trees
these trees not only resemble bottles
but store tremendous amounts of water up
to 300 liters or 80 gallons of water
this threatened tree is native to India
and Equatorial Africa but mostly lived
throughout Madagascar where it is their
national tree one species grows in
Australia from the Arabic word for fruit
with many seeds Buki Bab the BOA Bab
tree produces edible monkey fruit and
can live as long as 500 years
it's strong root system allows the tree
to be quite resistant to drought number
four the resurrection plant the
resurrection plant also known as Rose of
Jericho salad janella lepida phyla is a
desert plant that is somewhere between a
moss
and affirm the Chihuahuan Desert is its
native habitat where it has an amazing
ability to become almost completely
desiccated without dying during dry
weather these stems of the resurrection
plant which never produces fruit flowers
or seeds curl up into a tight wad than
uncurl when the plant receives moisture
again number 5 the baseball plant native
to South Africa's Great Karoo region the
baseball plant
euphorbia Alves ax is now a highly
endangered in the wild plant collectors
have unsustainably harvested this
unusual plant almost to the point of
extinction in the wild national and
international legislation has now been
enacted to protected Botanical Gardens
and plant nurseries grow a lot of
euphoria obese so collectors who want
this plant can obtain it from a supplier
rather than raid the wild for specimens
shaped exactly like a baseball it is a
popular ornamental yard plant only 20
centimetres 8 inches tall it has
separate male and female plants the
plants SAP is highly toxic and if it
gets on the skin it causes severe
problems number 6 the Venus flytrap the
most famous of all the carnivorous
plants the Venus flytrap Dionaea musa
Pula was named after the goddess of sex
and love because botanists noticed the
flower looked like a vagina oval in
shape with a pink interior the flytrap
also has hair like cilia that are ultra
sensitive for quickly detecting the
presence of live insects when the hairs
are triggered the plant secretes Musil
itch and its two hinged leaves snap shut
the prey is trapped in less than one
second the sufficient meat-eating plant
is a threatened species number seven the
world's most drought resistant plant
also called Onyango the onion of the
desert the Namibian
well which Chia mirabilis is truly one
of a kind and only grows in South Africa
the while wikia is composed of only two
leaves and sturdy roots the plant's two
leaves grow continuously throughout its
lifetime
amazing span from 400 to 1500 years it
grows to about two meters six and a half
feet in height but its width may be
greater the strangest thing about the
two leaves is how they grow over around
and on top of each other for years this
plant can survive as long as five years
without rain number eight the world's
largest flower rafflesia arnoldii of the
u4 bias a plant family is the world's
largest individually produced flower
with a single blossom growing to a
whopping three feet in height and
between 15 to 24 pounds in weight the
rusty red and lightly speckled bloom is
very rare growing in Sumatra's forests
its bloom lasts only for three to seven
days the plant has a unisexual
reproductive system and only contains a
flower there are no roots stems or fruit
this parasitic plant can contain up to
twenty 6.5 liters or seven quarts of
water and attracts pollinating insects
through its distinctive odor a quite
pungent offensive rotting meat kind of
odor it is so bad it also has the name
corpse plant or corpse flower once
pollinated less than 20% of its
seedlings survive
- bloom themselves number 9 the corpse
flower not to be confused with the
previous indonesian corpse flower plant
rafflesia the world's largest flower
there is a second Indonesian Korean
plant also known as the corpse flower
the two plants are very different
this second plant titan arum which
basically translates as titanic penis is
a tall flower cluster with a purplish
Palace like spire that grows taller than
adult men titan arum a map or phallus
titanium is a carrion flower that
attracts pollinating insects to help it
create its purple cream and green
blossoms its insect attracting aroma
mimics the odor of a decomposing dead
animal rather than being the world's
largest single flower that titan arum is
the world's largest in Flores
since a cluster of flowers growing on a
stem protected by law because of its
rarity the plants stamped the pentacle
holds up its large inflorescence which
only blooms every 40 years number 10 the
red tide haunting the world's coastlines
is a terrifying phenomenon known as the
red tide the strangest combination of
extra nutrients and weather changes
causes many tiny seaweeds to multiply
red in color the multitude al-jarrah
Pelagius turns the surf to a rusty red
color in a phenomenon known as the red
tide the extremely neurotoxic algae are
quickly absorbed by the waters shellfish
when contaminated shellfish is ingested
by humans the toxin anesthetized as
respiratory pathways and quickly
paralyze the person's limbs fatal
without treatment and potentially fatal
with treatment it is extremely dangerous
in recent years provinces and states
have closed ocean harvesting during a
red tide because of the threat of
paralytic shellfish poisoning also fatal
to Ducks and sea birds this red tide is
considered to be the basis of the plague
noted in the Bible when water turned to
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