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There are many flowers on earth that, on the one hand, have not particularly remarkable appearance, but on the other – any an interesting feature, for example, they are extremely rare, scary poisonous etc. We will tell you about some of these unique ones.
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Transparent Flower – Gray Double
Outwardly, Gray’s bifolia is a very modest plant with unpretentious white flowers and large leaves. It’s easy to understand by name that each plant has just a couple of leaves. These flowers are very rare. and therefore are listed in the Red Book. You can only meet them at parts of the Far East, Japan, China and the North America. However, not uncommon is the main feature bifolia Gray, and the fact that in the rain his flowers become completely transparent. Therefore, this plant is also called “skeletal flower” or “flower-skeleton.”
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Terribly Poisonous Flower – Desert Rose
African flower adenium – a truly deadly plant, poison which aborigines have been using for centuries to kill such large animals like lions and elephants. To obtain potent, plants boil for more than ten hours, and then allow excess moisture to evaporate. One drop made so concentrated poison kills a large animal in which almost immediately the respiratory system fails. However, there is a creature which is not just not afraid of the poison of a desert rose – it uses him for his protection. This is a brave and entrepreneurial creature, called the African crested rat, chews the poisonous bark of the plant, and then licks himself and thus inflicts poison on his body. A after that, who dares to feast on her? ..
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Dangerous Flower – Calcium
Another “beautiful killer” is calcium, all parts of which incredibly poisonous. It’s enough for a bee to just sit on such a flower, and then start collecting nectar from other plants so that its honey could have been poisoned. Even a small amount of poison, once in human body, causes vomiting, shortness of breath, paralysis muscle, and then coma and death. After taking a large dose occurs fast cardiac arrest. Fortunately for us, in Russia this flower does not grow.
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Nectar-rich flower – Strelitzia
This is a large South African plant with large leaves and flowers similar to the head of an exotic bird. First feature flowers is that they do not smell at all. The second difference is there is so much nectar in the flowers that it flows down their petals. Attracted by nectar, insects open the petals – and here in them stamens are shot with pollen. The gourmet she covered becomes pollinators. This is another feature of Strelitzia.
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Underground Flower – Risantella
Common only in Australia is rizantella gardner is a type of orchid. If you look at the picture of this unusual plant, you can see that the flower, as if torn off, lies on bare ground, and the stem and leaves are not visible. IN reality risantella is an underground flower, and on surface it is shown at the end of flowering, in order to scatter seeds.
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The rarest flower – Gibraltarsky Smolevka
This flower has long been considered extinct, and reminded of it. only old photographs. However, in 1994. one lucky the climber was lucky to find the only surviving plant Gibltarsky Smolevka. Its seeds, collected by botanists, stores today is the World Seed Bank. Of these, new plants are trying bring scientists of the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens and London The royal garden.
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Predatory Flower – Aldwand Bubble
This aquatic predator plant is now listed in the Red Book. Not having roots, it floats freely on the surface of the water. That it seems a flower, actually eight cuttings that grow from single points and consist of many leaves. Every stalk crowns plate-sink with sensitive bristles. When to her prey is approaching (small crustaceans, larvae, insects), bristles irritated – and the sink instantly slams. Digestion food can last up to a week, and after that the leaf dies.
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