Sunday 19 June 2011

10 Strangest and most unique plants in the World

Plant is one of the appendages of human life. Plants help the absorption of water also provide oxygen for humans and animals. Some of them we used to plant in our home page. But there are several species of plants that have special characteristics peculiar, we find that unusual, and some of them very rare.

1. Welwitschia mirabilis: Plants with Extraordinary Durability
Dilhat form is not bad, but the crop this one is truly unique. Plant origin Namibia has only two leaves and a stem with roots. Two leaves will continue to grow bigger-like aliens. The trunk will grow instead of rising again.




This plant will grow to reach 8 meters wide with a height of 2 meters. She was able to reach 400 to 1500 years and will not die even though no rain for 5 years. It felt so stung either raw or cooked, and therefore named Onyanga, which means onion of the desert.

2. Dionaea muscipula: Venus Fly The Trap

The Venus Fly Trap is the most carnivorous plants known for its unique natural traps are active and efficient. Two leaves attached to the plant is filled with ultra-sensitive hairs that detect the presence of any of the ants, flies or other insects. Once someone has touched the fur, the trap will work in less than a second.

3. Arnoldii Rafflesia: The World's Largest Flower

These plants are exotic, very rare, but they are less beautiful, spotted, named Rafflesia Arnoldi one of 16 species of the genus Rafflesia, the world's largest flower. 16 species are known to be found only in Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo, Java) and Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak).
Rafflesia arnoldii, later incorporated into familiEuphorbiaceae, can be up to 1 meter in diameter with a weight of 7-11 kg achieved.
The flowers will bloom in just 3 days to a week only. While blooming flowers will be putting out the stench was terrible to Indonesia's interest is called carrion flower. The smell is typical of insect pollinators invited to come and allowed him to generations and only 10-20 percent of the seedlings that will be successful and in 9 months, with little kebruntungan, will bloom again.

4. Desmodium gyrans: Plant Dancing



Darwin called Hedysarum, modern botanists call it Desmodium Gyrans, or rather, Codariocalyx Motorius. People call Runmput Dancing or telegraphs, or plant crops semaphores, because the movement of the leaves are like dancing or like movement semaphore code. It includes an easy crop to grow and will be "dancing" at a lot of sunlight or in a dry state. How to dance, just look at the video below:

5. Euphorbia obesa: Plants Baseball


Euphorbia Obesa, also dubbed Baseball plants, commonly grown in the Great Karoo, South Africa. Its population began to be threatened as the plant is often pursued by collectors without thinking of planting again. This makes some organizations within and outside the country react to protect. Although in its natural habitat is still threatened Euphorbia obesa, it's been a lot of farms cultivate them, so they also help ensure that trafficked the collector is not derived from nature.

6. Amorphophallus titanum: carrion flowers

This interest can be more than a high height of a grown man, and issued a stinging smell of rotten anyway. Named Titan Arum, in Indonesia well known as the "corpse flower" because it smells it. This flower is a rare phenomenon and breed thanks to the help of pollinating insects that come because of the smell.

7. Baobab: The Bottle Tree



Baobab is the common name of a genus Adansonia consisting of 8 species of tree, originally from Madagascar. Also known as bottle trees, not only because of its shape is like a bottle, but the tree is also usually able to accommodate about 300 liters of water. No wonder the age of this tree can reach 500 years.

8. Cinnabari Dracaena: Dragon Blood Tree

Dragon Tree Dracaena cinnabari or derived from the Socotra archipelago. Also called the Dragon Blood Tree and Socotra Dragon Tree. This tree is one of the strangest tree on the island of Socotra, with a shape like an umbrella. First published by Isaac Bayley Balfour in 1882. If you look, the tree was once an icon in Windows as a Network icon. Dragon's blood is taken from the color red sap, and can be used as drugs or dyes dyes.

9. Selaginella lepidophylla: Plants of the Risen Back


Known also as the Rose of Jericho, Selaginella Lepidophylla is a species of desert plants for its ability to survive even though preserved by drying. During dry weather in its natural habitat, the stems will shrink into a small ball back and decompose when exposed to moist places. Originally grown in the Chihuahuan desert.

10. Mimosa púdica: The Princess Malu

This one is not weird here. Many are found in tropical regions and also in South and Central America. When touched or shaken leaves will mengkuncup and will reopen in a few minutes. As a feeling

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