Maybe you think they do not have a plan like animals, they just grow and become prey.
But a lot of temperament we can learn from the plants. They can burn, firing weapons, can fly, and can even work together.
There are also plants that are able to build sophisticated schemes for their defense, there are also plants that can take revenge. The following are eight such plants that are unique.
8. Eucalyptus trees (Having a Napalm Bomb to their enemies)
When it comes time when they have to protect their territory, eucalyptus trees have a policy to scorching earth. Eucalyptus trees are not only resistant to forest fires but also the culprit that caused it. Eucalyptus is specifically designed to be a tree to survive after a raging fire destroyed the life of the surrounding forest. This is all because they have a stem that is hidden deep inside their skins, which will come out when the smoke had faded.
Eucalyptus oils contain a kind that is so highly flammable, this tree can literally explode when they are burned, like flicking a cigarette butt into the gas station.
The leaves of the eucalyptus trees full of napalm is so toxic that can not destroy insects and fungi. This tree also produces gas in the form of bluish-gray cloud that evaporates which can go up like a ball of fire with a lightning bolt or a discarded cigarette butts then there is the explosive reaction.
Eucalyptus plantations have been blamed for fires in 1991 in California that destroyed 3,000 homes.
7. Plants that can be commanded Insects
One example is on tomatoes, when caterpillars begin to eat the tomato, the tomato experiment showed that smoke chemical signals that summon parasitic wasps army to come against them. Tobacco, too, known to have committed a similar call for help from the nearest predator to ward off caterpillars, leaf insects and other pests.
And special plants do not haphazardly call for reinforcements, they actually call the troops are really appropriate for the type of pests are attacking them.
How is that possible? While they are just plants, they do not even have basic knowledge about insects. How do they know that they are being eaten, let alone distinguish between who eats them?
The scientists believe that plants can sense the digestive substances some insect species that was attacking them. But it's not just about violence. Plants can also manipulate insects for something that is profitable.
Orchids, for 85 million years ago have been known to describe chemical signals that employ insects for communication, and they use tricks aroma which is basically to make the plant insects as a courier for their sperm.
For example, many orchids can produce aroma female insects in summer. The goal is to help men lure pollinating insects.
And, some orchids, such as the Australian tongue orchids, creating a scent that was almost the same so that the insects will be old men perched on orchids until the process is complete.
6. Cucumber Java (Master Mechanics Aviation)
Of course, many plants use some kind of system to spread their seed using angi. Thus, the seed will have some aerodynamic shape that allows them floating in the air for a while. You already know that. But most of the seed is still going to fall straight down if there was no wind. Well, cucumber Java has gone through that barrier. Java cucumber seeds have wings. Not a wing like a parachute that helps catch the wind.
Cucumber Java has developed the actual wings that can fly up to 100 meters when really there is no wind, and even further if there is wind.
In fact, the seeds fly well and they have become an example for multiple aircraft in the world's first artificial. Etrich Igo, an Austrian, and one of the pioneers of aviation, basing the design on the shape glidernya this seed.
5. Plants that Communicate and Cooperate
Plants usually do not want to share their environment with foreign nomads. But when it comes a threat to his family, some plants will actually defend their siblings.
When jewelweed plants placed in the pot with unrelated plants, both will grow as fast as possible, each trying to utilize the nutrients as efficiently and as much as possible to stay away from the others.
But when similar plants planted together, they really control their normal root development.Jewelweed is probably mafia family of the flora, not only do they not snatch food from each other, they actually grow together.
Some plants can recognize their families and care enough to share food. Plants able to tell their friends from their enemies, they seem to be able to collaborate with each other.
When a willow tree is being eaten by caterpillars, the tree will produce chemicals that will make the insects have difficulty digesting. And then the trees around it that have not even touched too will begin to produce similar chemicals.
Have found that once the willow found worm-eaten, it releases pheromones into the air that will make other willows in the area could detect so that they also issued their own chemical weapons.
Plants are also working together through a signal when it blooms. If they drop their flowers at random, herbivores can eat them one by one, but if they coordinate, they can be flooded with leaves and sheer volume.
Even more remarkable, tobacco plants can communicate with an entirely different species.
4. Marcgravia Evenia (Manipulate Bats)
Scientists have discovered a plant that could commanding bat. In particular, they found a vine Marcgravia Evenia Cuba, which has developed a kind of satellite-like leaves above the fruit.
Its function is not to catch the sunlight, the leaf is facing straight ahead. Apparently Marcrgavia depend exclusively on bats for seed dispersal.
The problem is that bats are blind, nor does it have a good sense of smell, so this plant is given a powerful tool sonar transmitter. And the leaves of this plant becomes a perfect reflector for emitting a signal.
Tests showed that the bats found the plant was 50 percent faster in the presence of this particular leaf than no special leaf.
Their research also showed that the echoes from leaves will sound a constant and conspicuous from almost every angle.
3. Dodder, Wine Forest Hunting for food
Dodder is a parasitic wine depends entirely on other plants for food. He has no roots or leaves, and unlike almost all other plants, these plants can not photosynthesize. To survive, these plants need to absorb nutrients from other plants.
But it's not as simple as you think, plant a tree and then landed in sebuat stick its fangs and begin to absorb. This is much more amazing! The Wine Dodder forest hunting victims.
Laboratory tests showed this plant can smell another specific plants and then to grow toward them.
Dodder has a sharp smell of the "smell", from the smell he was also able to distinguish between a good host and a bad one.
After that he crawled in the trunk of the victim, firmly attached, wrapped with a special emphasis thorns to penetrate the bark, to suck the prey.
2. Plants that move faster than bullets
Plants almost universally defined by their total inability to move. You can threaten crops with saws and even a plant will not flinch, no matter the horror that may be felt in the heart.Or at least that's what you think.
Actually, there are quite a lot of plants that move around us with surprising speed, but still could not get up and walk away.
Each leaf of this plant mounted on tiny hinges, and it actually twitching and moving around like the Whomping Willow from Harry Potter.
But the fastest plants use their lightning speed to spread their pollen around. Plants will actually trigger fires its pollen on the insect's face nearby.
Pollen of these plants were fired in 15 milliseconds with the beat and enough force to knock an insect, or at least an insect will stagger like a person subject to boxing.
However, plants that have the most powerful shots in the world is a mulberry tree, which can launch its pollen more than half the speed of sound (almost 550 km / h).
But who gets the title of "fastest plant" is a dogwood tree bunchberry. Launching its pollen under one millisecond. Almost nothing in the animal kingdom that can move faster than that.
Plant mechanisms to accelerate the launch in 2400 times the force of gravity, or about 800 times what might be experienced by astronauts during takeoff.
1. Ara Fruits, Plants of revenge
As you may already know, plants and insects have a very important relationship. Plants provide nectar, and in return, the insects pollinate crops.
But what happens if the insect does not comply with the cooperation system? What will the plant do? Make a complaint? Ask for the insects to go?
Insects pretty much get advantage of this deal. They can eat for free, and maybe give them some pollen. Fig tree not a tree that only surrender if the cheated bee.
The fig tree has a partnership with certain wasp called a fig wasp. Wasps need this plant because of the need for food, and lay eggs in fruit. Instead, the bees are expected to do the pollination of fruit trees that can reproduce.
A fig tree can not reproduce without bees, wasps can not survive without the fig tree. But that brings us back to an old problem: What if a certain wasps do not care? He ate from the tree and not Ara pollinating? Fig tree would retaliate by killing his family!
The researchers experimented by introducing non-productive wasps (ie wasps that do not carry pollen) figs. Wasps are not simply go after eating from the fig tree and left him without pollinating.
Then that happened, most of which have not been ripe figs fall fall, wasps kill children who have not had time to hatch and leave the fruit.
Somehow the fruit of the fig wasps do not know the deal, and the wasp eggs anywhere in the fruit that should be killed.
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