Showing posts with label World's Most Unique Plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World's Most Unique Plants. Show all posts

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Cactus How to Purify Water?



In the hot desert in the U.S. and Mexico region, since the cactus plant used to be the savior of the rover. Cactus stems store water that is often used when someone runs out of stock drinks.
How to Purify Water Cactus?
Photos: ezinemark.com

Apparently not only that cactus functions. Recent research suggests the best pure water contained in the prickly pear cactus. Researchers from the University of South Florida has been experimenting with extracting the sap, and add into the dirty water due to sediment and bacteria.

Sediment and bacteria cause the sap to join, then settle to the bottom and separate the 98% of bacteria in the water.

Researchers looked at communities in developing countries using the cactus in their daily lives. They used to boil the sap of a cactus to get the sap is then added to the water, just as the researchers.

If some of these problems can be solved, it is cheap and clean water that can reach millions of people who lack these resources.

Well, again we learn from nature about the purification of water, is not it?

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Planting plants It Themselves




Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, found the seeds of plants that can grow themselves. Plant is named Erodium cicutarium, which is unique.
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Erodium cicutarium are flowering plants belonging to the Geranium family. These plants usually grow in warm climates.

Seed plants are also known as filaree Redstem is burying himself by turning. Spin like a drill, filaree Redstem move down to put himself on the ground.

The uniqueness was first published in the Journal of Experimental Biology. In a scientific journal was called, when the fruit grow, the seeds in a wet state. But when the seeds dry out, emerging strands of seeds which will then be moving around like a spiral drill.

Friday, June 8, 2012

Victoria Amazonica, Lotus Largest inword



Amazonica Victoria water lily is the largest genus in the world, and floating in shallow water amazon river basin. Diameter of the leaves can grow over 3 feet and can weigh up to 31 kg.

This giant lotus also called victoria regia victoria Sakah one queen in England, as found by the adventurer named Robert Schomburgk in 1836.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Human Shaped plants (Mandrake)

If you are reading the Harry Potter novels, must know about this plant,

I think that this plant ga benar2 there, I think only exists in novels like harry potter,, Well, I'll give the full story about this plant.


mandrake lg 3 Tumbuhan Berbentuk Manusia (Mandrake)


 Tumbuhan Berbentuk Manusia (Mandrake)
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Mandrake is the common name for members of the plant genus mandragora nightshades family (Solanaceae).
Mandrake includes poisonous plants. The content of Mandrake including deliriant hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids (hyoscyamine),
and sometimes contain bifurcations causing their roots resemble the shape of human figures,
their roots have long been used in magic rituals,
To this day are still used in neopagan religions such as Wicca and Germanic revivalism (Odinisme).

Mandrake is a plant called by the Arabs "luffâh", or "beid el-jin" ("egg genie").
And parsley-shaped root is often branched. The branches are somewhat similar form of a scarecrow.
All parts of plant poisonous mandrake. But the good processing makes a lot of medicinal mandrake.

According to folklore in some countries, the mandrake would grow only under the droplets of semen from a man who was hanged.
In other countries, mandrake as a drug believed to be women who want children (perhaps because of its shape is like a human)

 Tumbuhan Berbentuk Manusia (Mandrake)

Apart from the rarity of this plant, there are other oddities again, and this is a fact based research scientist, ..

Monday, April 2, 2012

Trees That Can Walk in South Africa

It may sound strange, but this plant is - is able to walk. These plants come from tropical forests of South Africa. This plant can grow to 25 meters, has a stem with a length of 17 cm. This plant's name is "Socratea exorrhiza", commonly nicknamed the "Walking Palm" or "Cashapona"

 Pohon Yang Bisa Berjalan

These plants do not have the roots like other plants. As we see in the image, crop it as "standing" with the use of these roots. Yes, this plant is standing by its roots, and the more surprising is this plant can switch positions.

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At first no one knew about the usefulness of the strange roots, but in 1961 a new fact about this plant is found. A tree was uprooted due to overwritten by other trees, but several days later, the new roots grow around the roots of the old.
2 Tree lined streets Can Walk

A few weeks later, the plant was almost standing upright again with a new root earlier. Although it can move, but the process is said to require longer periods of time. It says the movement is only about 1 meter per year.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

World's Most Unique Plants

1. Plants of the world's strongest








Indeed, this one plant plasticity not cool, but native plants Namibia is indeed fabulous!This plant has only two leaves, one stem and root systems, do it ONLY! But these twoleaves continue to grow until eventually like Alien.
The longer the stem of this plant will be more bold, but not escalate, the maximum heightof this plant is only 2 feet away but can reach 8 meters in width.
Age of these plants can reach 400 to 15 centuries!. Could survive without rain for 5years! In addition, plants in Namibia called Onyanga it was delicious to eat either eatenraw or cooked in the coals. Oh yes, the meaning of the name is Onion Onyanga Desert!



2. Carnivore Plants














Plant this one is the most famous carnivorous plant, because the activity and efficiencyin trapping prey. Pair of "Leaves" that characterizes this plant is a trap that has anultra-sensitive hair, to feel any small animal or insect that comes. Once the hairs on the leaf is touched, the leaves will close and trap any animal that approached her.
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