Chapter 262: Mysterious Trees

Zhan Xiaogui was speechless: "It's still useless!" It's useless to look at it from the top, it's still lost! I think we're going to keep going in this direction! ”

Several people also decided to follow Zhan Xiaogui all the way forward.

Zhan Xiaogui looked at a few very magical words in front of him and said: "There will be a lot of strangely shaped plants in our countryside, and the names of many plants are based on their shapes, such as flowers that look like a small trumpet, people call it a trumpet flower, shaped like a cockscomb, people call it a cockscomb flower, people who look like a small tail call it a dogtail grass, and some plants have a very magical side, they will fly into the sky like a hydrogen balloon, its dandelion, and some will stick to people's bodies like little hedgehogs, They are Xanthus, and what we are going to talk about today is a kind of character flower that is not easy to see in ordinary rural areas - lip flowers.

Lip flowers are named because they resemble lipstick lips, and this plant is also wonderful, because their flowers really look like a lip, as if they have been specially treated artificially, and even the lines are particularly similar to real lips, and they can be scary at any time when you see them inadvertently. In fact, the shape of the lip flower is naturally formed, and has not been artificially treated, this flower only grows in some tropical rainforests, its gorgeous appearance is also grown to resist natural enemies, and those plants that have a gorgeous appearance are highly toxic, the lip flower itself does not contain any toxins, it is purely a beautiful and sexy flower.

The flowers of the lip flower are like the seductive red lips of the beauty, which makes people can't help but want to kiss the fragrance when they see it, and the pentagonal flower center in the middle of the petals is like a small crown, which is very dazzling, so the lip flower is very popular with some couples, and many people will give the lip flower to their favorite person because its flower language is: please kiss me. In fact, the flowery flowers of the lip flower are used to attract pollen or birds, and the pollen in their pentagonal flower centers needs to be pollinated by animals so that they can bear fruit and reproduce, so in order to attract these small animals, the lip flower grows bright petals.

Many plants have a gorgeous appearance but the heart contains highly poisonous, they use their gorgeous appearance to protect themselves, people or animals will know that they contain highly poisonous, will not touch or destroy them, they can grow naturally, such as oleander, poppies, man-eating flowers, etc., these flowers are gorgeous in appearance, but they contain highly poisonous. Although the lip flowers are gorgeous in appearance, they do not contain toxins, and their gorgeous appearance is only to be able to successfully complete their own growth and reproduction.

Due to the increasing destruction of the rainforest over time, the number of many plants is getting smaller and smaller, and the lip flower is one of them, and the destruction of the forest has caused their original ecological balance to be broken, and it is difficult to see this kind of flower with a sexy "lip" anymore. Although nature is generous, it is still necessary for people to pay attention to a degree when they ask for it, and only by moderate exploitation can the resources not be exhausted, and the natural environment can be better. They're these flowers, I've seen them! Zhan Xiaogui said.

Everyone was carefully studying the words with red lips, and Zhan Xiaogui really wanted to go up and kiss them at this moment.

When Zhan Xiaogui didn't come at that time, he saw a kind of tree in the savannah of South America on the tree, and people were all amazed by the spindle tree with its unique shape.

The spindle tree is about thirty meters high, thick in the middle, several meters in diameter, and slender at the ends. The spindle tree is like a giant bottle with a large belly and a small mouth, standing on the wide savannah. This form of the spindle tree is the result of its long-term adaptation to the local natural environment.

We know that there are distinct dry and wet seasons in the savannah region. When the wet season comes, the giant bottle-like trunk of the spindle tree begins to store a large amount of water in the body, and the maximum water storage can reach about 2 tons, which is simply a "natural water reservoir"; In the dry season, other plants and trees turn yellow due to lack of water, while spindle trees rely on the water stored in their bodies to maintain their vitality.

In the savannah of Africa, you can see another giant tree called the Bobab tree. The tree is about 25 meters tall, but the trunk is thick, reaching about 10 meters in diameter and the diameter of the canopy can reach 100 meters. From afar, the Bobab tree looks like a "giant" on the grassland. The Bobab tree also has a special ability to withstand drought conditions. It absorbs enough water during the wet season of the year and stores a large amount of water in the body. In the hot and dry season, it gradually depletes the water in the body, so as to survive in the special environment where the dry and wet seasons are distinct. The Bobabu tree is also a long-lived tree that can be up to four or five thousand years old. The fruit of the Bobab tree is oblong, juicy and delicious, and the monkey likes to eat it, so the Bobab tree is also called "baobab tree".

In the tropical rainforests of the Amazon plains of South America, there is a tall tree called the Brazilian cherry fruit. It is 80 meters tall, which is equivalent to the height of a 30-story building. This particularly tall tree is also the result of its adaptation to the tropical rainforest environment over the years. The tropical rainforest area is hot and rainy all year round, so the plants are lush and green all year round. Many species of trees, shrubs, herbs, vines, and epiphytes form a multi-layered canopy jungle, generally with four or five levels, and many up to ten. Many trees try to grow upwards in order to get a little more light.

They have few branches under their trees, and their trees are tall. The cherry tree is not only tall, but also has a high oil content and is edible and is the tallest plant in the world. Not only are the nucleus trees tall, but they also have straight trunks, and they are also an important feature of the Australian landscape. The small leaves of eucalyptus allow it to reduce water loss due to transpiration, and its ability to absorb water allows it to survive in a relatively dry environment. Eucalyptus trees grow very fast, and within ten years, the seedlings are in full bloom. Eucalyptus leaves contain a scented oil that can be used to make eucalyptus sugar or in the pharmaceutical industry.

In the mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is more than 4,000 meters high, we can see a kind of plant that grows close to the ground, and they are called cushion plants. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has high terrain, low temperature, large temperature difference between day and night, strong wind and hail, thin soil layer, and harsh natural environment, so it is difficult for general plants to grow here; Cushion plants have a special ability to adapt to this environment. They grow close to the ground and have well-developed root systems that "grip" the soil underneath, so they are not afraid of strong winds and can draw water from the soil. They are dense, soft and elastic in the form of cushions or hemispherical protrusions, which allows them to withstand the onslaught of hail on the plateau. These cushion-shaped plants have many beautiful small flowers, such as the white-flowered cluster mustard, the yellow-flowered saxifrage, the red-and-white dotted plum, the blue-purple flowered astragalus, and the reddish rhodiola rosea, which dresses the plateau very beautifully, and also shows people their strong adaptability and tenacious vitality to the alpine environment.

In short, strange trees and strange trees all over the world seem to be found in this forest.