10 unusual facts about plants (10 Photos)
10 unusual facts about plants (10 Photos)
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1. In the Pacific, along with coconut palms, which give the milk and oil, growing breadfruit. Bread called all kinds of trees the genus Artocarpus mulberry family. They bear fruit "loaf" up to 12 kg! In the pulp oval fruit accumulates starch, evolving as the maturation of the ... dough. "If a man plant a breadfruit, it will do more to feed their offspring, than a farmer. life in your own sweat handles his field .. "- written by James Cook. Typically, grain fruit trees within 70-75 years. On the same tree every year matures 700-800 "bread".
2. A starch sago palms growing in New Guinea, make pancakes. Palma bloom at 16 year of life, it really cut down, before flowering, when in her heart the greatest amount of starch. The core is extracted, squeezed through a small screen on a red-hot metal surface and make the sago from the sago palm is called.
3. Without any treatment you can use latex proper milk tree - Venezuelan galaktodendrona. In composition, it is close to cow's milk and sugar like cream! And if the juice to boil, then formed a delicious quark mass.
4. In Madagascar, you can admire the amazing tree of the family Begoniaceae with whimsical fruits. It is called the sausage, because of the many branches of brown randomly hanging on the length of peduncle sausage fruit. Each "sausage" may be about half a meter in length and 10cm in diameter. ( FSUs Auger, fruit inedible, but I'm not sure). However, the so-called and Aucuba Japanese. Its leathery leaves are covered with golden-yellow spots and dots, is somewhat like pieces of fat per slice of sausage. The similarity, however, quite remote.
5. Socotra Island off the eastern coast of Africa - center of strange, peculiar forms of plant life. Here on the rocky Sklo nach Mountains can be seen cucumber tree (Dendrosicyos socotrana) - a plant with prickly leaves wrinkled, shipastymi, FSUs ozhimi on ordinary cucumber fruits and the thick, sodden from the milky juice of the barrel, consisting of soft, whitish cellular tissue, which is easily cut with a knife. This is the only tree in the family Cucurbitaceae.
6. In the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, and the tree grows, thickened juice nuts which by its taste is not very different from butter.
7. here are plants - "candy". For example, the leaves of the Paraguayan shrub Stevia more than 300 times sweeter than sugar, and leaves of Mexican sugar grass - in 1000. Red berries herbaceous plants Toumatokus Dannel of the African savannah sweeter than sugar in 2000 times, and red berries from the forest Dioskorefillyum kumminisii Nigeria and other West African countries - in 3000. In West Africa, and grows the sweetest plant - shrub ketemf containing the substance toumatin, better than the sweetness of sugar in 100000 times!
8. On the islands of Oceania is a kind of tropical trees - "cakes". They grow in abundance yellowish fruit, which tastes like sweet tarts
9. Candy tree, or Japanese raisin tree, - the representative of the family Rhamnaceae, native of Japan and China - Joven sweet. If we are to be exact, in fact, it's dry, and the taste of candy at vegetable lover: he reminds sour raisins inedible, but the twisted axle holding their inflorescences juicy and fleshy. Each tree can provide 35 kg of "sweets", or sweet, with a touch of rum.
10. In the forests of India is growing the plant kalir-kanda, called the local dialect "fool the stomach." 1-2 leaf eaten it, the person the feeling of satiety during the whole week (!), Despite the fact that the leaves no nutrients. Due to the property to create the illusion of satiety pills and infusions of leaves kalir-ka??a recommend that people wishing to lose weight.
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