At the same time, within a certain research institute in the United States...
They have analyzed some data transmitted back from the dark forest, and some people have begun to study those strange plants.
In fact, it is no longer precedent for plants to rely on animals for food. I don’t know how many years ago, they knew that many plants absorb the body fluids of some insects and extract nutrients to maintain their lives.
Of course, let’s not talk about pitcher plants, cordyceps, Venus flytraps, Sarracenia and the like. Those are just things that are not suitable for insects.
But in the primeval forests and swamps of the Amazon River in America, there is a strange plant that grows very delicately and beautifully, with flowers shaped like sun disks, fragrance like orchids, leaves thirty or forty centimeters long... I have to mention it...
That's right...it's the piranha!
The piranha is a mysterious plant with certain animal-like habits. It has to swallow at least ten living beings before it can bloom into a flower. Only one flower can bloom out of ten, which means that ten flowers have constantly passed through fresh biological life.
It takes a small amount of offerings to get a small green fruit! It eats countless passing insects, ants, birds, beasts and even innocent people on the road.
People also devour the other nine small fruits that bear fruit at the same time. Only in a hundred years will the green fruit of the piranha mature from green to brown and then to bloody red. At that time, it will become a treasure in the world. It can be made
It is a magical elixir that improves abilities. Unfortunately, it is just a legend. No one has ever seen the red piranha fruit.
The piranha relies on flies to carry pollen and absorbs nutrients from other plants to survive, so it has no leaves or stems.
It doesn’t have four seasons at all, so it doesn’t necessarily appear when. But according to locals, its main growing season is from May to October every year. When it first emerges from the ground, it grows about
The size of a ping pong ball. After several months of slow growth, the flower buds changed from the size of a ping pong ball to the size of a cabbage. Then the five fleshy petals slowly opened. By the time the flower fully bloomed, it had already been two days.
It’s been two days and two nights. What’s unbelievable is that,
The huge flowers that Rafflesia finally blooms can only last for 4-5 days, and it is said that during these 4-5 days, the flowers will continuously release a strange odor, so that large animals will naturally avoid it.
And let some smell-seeking insects serve as pollinators for it. When the petals wither, they will turn into a pile of rotten black matter. Soon, the fruit will also mature, with many tiny seeds hidden inside, ready to fall into the ground at any time.
, find a suitable germination location.
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However, is there really such a thing as a piranha? Many people doubt it!
There have been reports that there are plants that can eat humans, but so far, botanists have not found any evidence of human-eating plants. There are about 500 kinds of carnivorous plants on the earth, such as pitcher plants, Sarracenia, and flytraps.
Grass, sundew, etc., to the point where they only eat small animals such as insects.
Some people also suspect that... the piranha is actually a Rafflesia flower. Because the diameter of the flower is very large, and the body of the flower itself emits a rotting corpse smell. So people think that it can eat people, so it has food.
The origin of the name Rafflesia. The diameter of the Rafflesia flower is 1.5
meters and weighs 8 kilograms. The center of its flower is a large hollow that a child can sit in. Rafflesia is a standard parasitic plant that grows in the tropical jungle of Sumatra, Indonesia. It is the king flower from May to October every year.
The main growing season of flowers.
However, why do these plants we encounter in the dark forest wrap their vines around people and drag them up to the canopy above? What did they do to those humans?
According to records, the earliest reports of man-eating plants came from some explorers in the second half of the 19th century. Among them was a German explorer named Carl Leach.
After returning from an expedition, he said: "On the African island of Madagascar, I saw with my own eyes a tree that can eat people. The local residents regarded it as a sacred tree. There was once an indigenous woman who was driven away because she violated the tribe's commandments.
Climb up the sacred tree and tie the knot
Eight thorny leaves of the fruit tree tightly wrapped her up, and when the leaves reopened, only a pile of white bones were left." From then on, rumors about man-eating plants spread even more, and at the same time, about
There are also more reports of man-eating plants.
In the tropical primeval forests of Panama, there is also a "man-catching vine" similar to Dianbai. If you accidentally touch the vine, it will wrap around you tightly like a python until you are strangled. According to reports
, in the Brazilian forest, there is a shrub called Yanipinda, whose branches are covered with sharp thorns. If people or animals encounter this kind of tree, those branches with thorns will
Will swarm up and surround people or animals
Stabbing. It is difficult to get out of this predicament if no one else notices and provides assistance.
These sensational reports made botanists unable to remain indifferent. In 1971, an expedition team composed of a group of South American scientists went deep into the island of Madagascar and conducted extensive surveys in areas rumored to have man-eating trees.
Nothing was found. Many people are positive about man-eating plants.
Attitude. As we all know, some plants are very sensitive to light, sound and touch, such as sunflowers facing the sun, leaves of albizia tree opening towards the night and closing at night, and mimosa reacting to touch. Recently, some people have discovered that plants also have taste, pain, and can even sing.
. From this, it can be deduced that the existence of man-eating plants is not impossible.
This time, these materials, these plants and animals in the dark forest will definitely bring more exciting, exciting and worth studying things to scientific researchers.
It is normal or unsurprising for people that animals eat plants. To say that plants can eat
Many people will be surprised if they eat animals. So, are there really plants in the world that can prey on people or animals? This question needs to be answered in two sentences. First of all, plants that can prey on animals do exist, and they are mainly found in South Asia.
and Australia's ragweed, sundew, Venus flytrap and Sarracenia from South America. Most of these plants grow in tropical swamps, because the soil in such areas is often poor, so the plants have to prey on animals to increase nutrition.
Once upon a time, there was such a legend...
A terrifying experience of a German explorer: In the inaccessible tropical rain forest of Madagascar, Africa, there is a magical "devil tree" growing. It has a black trunk, long and wide leaves, and the edges of the leaves are like blades.
Zigzag shape. When dusk comes, the local indigenous people perform a mysterious ritual around the "Devil's Tree". Suddenly, with the sound of people shouting, a naked man
A woman with dew climbed up the trunk of the "Devil's Tree". When the woman was forced to touch the kelp-like leaves, something terrible happened. The leaves suddenly danced wildly and stretched out like the tentacles of an octopus.
Come over and wrap the poor woman tightly. As the number of leaves increases, the wrap becomes tighter and tighter. Slowly, her screams weaken, and then her head and body disappear...
This horrifying text makes me, a person who thinks he is well-informed, unable to help but feel horrified. Is the "man-eating tree" real or fake? I must get to the bottom of it! I want to go to Africa and search for it in the tropical rainforest of Madagascar.
The legendary "man-eating tree".
There are about 500 kinds of plants in the world that can eat animals, but most of them can only eat small insects. Rumor has it that the Dian cypress growing on the island of Java in Indonesia can actually eat humans.
The Diancypress tree is eight or nine meters high, with many long branches hanging down to the ground. Some of them are like fast-breaking wires, swaying in the wind. If someone accidentally touches them, all the branches on the tree will fall like devil's claws.
It stretches out in the same direction and wraps up the person, getting tighter and tighter, making it impossible for the person to escape. The branches are very strong.
It will soon secrete a highly viscous glue that can digest the captured "food". When the animal sticks to this liquid, it will be slowly "digested" and become a delicious meal for the tree. When the branches of Diancypress absorb
After finishing the feeding, it started to float again and set up a dragnet again, preparing to capture the next victim.
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Beep beep beep... When the email was sent, the scientists actually asked the Navy SEALs to take back a part of that plant for study.
Qin Hao cursed: "Damn it, there was a section there just now, but these dogs didn't send emails at that time and now they are sending emails... who will go back to pick them up? It's a waste of their lives!"
Ahead, more plants began to attack these special forces soldiers. Their methods were endless, and after a while, these special forces soldiers became unable to resist.
"Sir! Look... look there!" Everyone followed the direction pointed by the American Special Forces soldier's finger, and they saw a surprising scene.
The earth cracked, the earth and rocks shattered, and some unknown plants stretched out from the ground. They seemed to be some flowers, but these flowers were too big! Some of them were over three or four meters in height. They were huge.
The large petals are over one meter in diameter. The huge petals open and emit a foul smell, a bit like the stench of a corpse that has been putrid for a long time.
Some people staggered and fell down after smelling this smell. Those huge unknown flowers had many long strips of stems and leaves separated from the flower stems, like ropes, pulling down the fainting people on the ground.
All the human beings in the past were dragged in front of him and jerked upwards. An adult man weighing more than a hundred kilograms was thrown up like a chicken, and his body was thrown into the center of the huge petals.
These piranha flowers close their petals...
Quietly... it was very quiet inside. It took less than two minutes for the petals to open... Puffing... piles of bones fell out from inside and scattered on the ground...