Plant Curiosities
Tuesday - October 9, 2018 2:40 pm ,
Category : Fun Facts
WTN- Some plant Species have evolved unusual appearances or surprising methods of obtaining nutrients, achieving reproduction or adapting to their environments. These plants have evolved in ways that make them stand out from their counterparts - making them curiosities in human eyes and attest to the fine tuned intricacy of adaptation for survival.
Plants may take on unexpected and very unnatural shapes or coloration to be blend in with their environments, often to avoid consumption by animals. Where nutrition is not easily available some plants acts as parasites , freeloading off other plants, or tap unusual source of nutrients, such as insects.
Certain flowering plants have developed extreme propagation techniques. Flowers may waft out scents of rotting flesh , as the arum does, attracting files that will accomplish its pollination . Thermogenic plants , a curious type of plant found mainly in the tropics , create a heated interior environment that disseminates scent to attract pollinating insects such as beetles.
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Plants may take on unexpected and very unnatural shapes or coloration to be blend in with their environments, often to avoid consumption by animals. Where nutrition is not easily available some plants acts as parasites , freeloading off other plants, or tap unusual source of nutrients, such as insects.
Certain flowering plants have developed extreme propagation techniques. Flowers may waft out scents of rotting flesh , as the arum does, attracting files that will accomplish its pollination . Thermogenic plants , a curious type of plant found mainly in the tropics , create a heated interior environment that disseminates scent to attract pollinating insects such as beetles.
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