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 Post subject: The Beauty of Pollination
PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 10:47 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: The Beauty of Pollination
PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 11:51 am 
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Great video. As someone had said, plants are the coolest things after rocks.

Here's an interesting documentary about carnivorous plants (45 minutes long):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-fNzFdxAUU

And really, this isn't even the weirdest vegetal behaviour around. For instance, I've learnt that some trees share nutrients between each other thanks to a symbiotic fungus network, which clearly makes them a community, not just individual beings.

Titan Arum (Amorphophallus Titanum inflorescence can reach 3 meters high and smells like a rotting carcass, which attracts beetles and flies for pollination)
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Hydnora Africana (it doens't perform photosynthesis, instead this parasitic plant feeds from the roots of another plant)
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otherworldly...


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 Post subject: Re: The Beauty of Pollination
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That looks like a REALLY bad dream... Something out of a horror movie!

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that looks like the ideal pot plant for my bedroom...seriously


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Interesting perceptions. I find those plants phenomenally beautiful. Wondrously captivating.


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Next acquisition for my terrarium will be a Cepahlotus Follicularis 'Hummer's Giant'. Very alien looking too, and it's carnivorous (it attracts, traps and digests insects).

Here's one so you can see how strange that plant is:
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To reference another thread... the photo of the flower pods opening invoke a bit of what I'd imagine the Wormface creatures looked like in Heinlein's Have Spacesuit Will Travel.

They are beautiful, but also a bit terrifying in that context :)

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