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hooker-lips

Some Amazing flowers, but strange around the world…..

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hooker-lips1.HOOKER LIPS  These gorgeous pair of red, luscious lips belong to a plant known as Psychotic elate, a tropical tree found in the rain forests of Central and South American countries like Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador. Affectionately, Psychotic elate is called Hooker’s Lips or the Hot Lips Plants. The plant has apparently evolved into its current shape to attract pollinators including hummingbirds and butterflies. The bracts are only kissable for a short while, before they spread open to reveal the plant’s flowers.

FLYING-DUCK-ORCHID2.Beautiful FLYING DUCK ORCHID…Caleana major, the Flying Duck Orchid is a small orchid found in eastern and southern Australia. This terrestrial plant features a remarkable flower , resembling a duck in flight. The flower is an attractant to insects, such as male sawflies which pollinate the flower in a process.Its length and breadth serve as a landing pad for sawflies, the insects which usually pollinate this flower, and if any bugs have problems figuring out where the pollen is, it points them the right way. When a sawfly lands on the column of the Flying Duck Orchid, its weight forces the labellum to spring down on it. The insect is trapped and the only way out is via the pollen..

Beautiful-Dancing-Girl-Orchids3.Oncidium…Beautiful Dancing Girl Orchids
The Oncidium family is very large and includes many flower varieties. The most common flower variety is often referred to as the “dancing lady”.Oncidium types that have thin leaves, pseudobulbs, and branching sprays with flowers colored in yellow and mahogany…..



young-coconuts

Amazing Botanical Facts…

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                              Potato-Yukon-gold11

1.The first potatoes were cultivated in Peru about 7000 years ago.

flower petals 2.Most of the flowers have patterns of lines on their petals this act as a guide for insects to move toward the glands which produce nectar. Generally these glands are the base of the petals. Some of the flowers display these patterns in the UV rays they reflect.

First_Diesel_motor3.The first diesel engine ran on peanut oil.

growing-plant

4.Trees get about 90% of their nutrition from the atmosphere (Carbon – di – oxide etc) and only about 10% from the soil.

flower

5.There is a flower called the scarlet Pimperndel that can forecast the weather. If the flower is closed up rain will come and if it is opened up the day will be sunny. It is also called “the poor man’s weather glass.pineapple 6.Ingredients in pine apple might cause an abortion if eating during pregnancy.

young-coconuts7.The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

canberries 8.Small pockets of air inside cranberries cause them to bounce and float in water. 

peanuts

9.Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite. earth10.80% percent of the earth’s original forests have been cleared or destroyed.

11.Cricket bats are made of a tree called willow & Baseball bats are made out of wood of tree called Hickory.



titan-arum

Amazing interesting botanical facts every one must know

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strawberry
  1. Average straw berry has about 200 seeds and is the only fruit that bears its seeds on the outside
tomato-and-potato

2. Tomato and potato are the two vegetables which are grown in large quantities.

banana

 3. Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy.

avocados and pumpkins

4. From the botanical stand point avocados and pumpkins are fruits not vegetable , because they bears the plants seeds. Rubarb on the other hand is vegetable

titan-arum

5. The largest flower in the world is the titan arums the size of each flower is about 15 feet high and 3 feet wide (even bigger than elephant).

tree rings

6. Tree rings not only tell us age of the tree but they can also tell us about environmental events, including volcanic eruptions.

bristlecone-pines

7. The oldest trees in the world California bristle-cone pines and giant sequoias are regarded as the oldest trees and have been known to live 4000 to 5000 years.

dwarf-willow

8. The tiniest tree in the world is the Dwarf willow, its size is about two inches is found in green land.

elephant grass

 9. Elephant grass in Africa is named after elephants as it is about 4.5 meter high and even elephants can hide in grass.

apple

10. Apple is 25% air that is why it floats on water.