This cabin’s roof uses plants for
insulation. Long daylight hours help Alaskans grow huge flowers in the
summer. Photo and description by Ted Eckman.
Tag: plants
A mini glacier in the desert? It’s called an ice stupa and it irrigates nearby desert plants. @the-future-now
New species of plant buries its own seeds
A botanist has discovered a new species of plant in eastern Brazil
whose branches bend down upon bearing fruit and deposit seeds on the
ground, often burying them in a covering of soft soil or moss. This
trick is an example of geocarpy, a rare adaptation to survival in harsh
or short-lived environments with small favorable patches. The adaptation
ensures seedlings germinate near their parents, helping them stay
within the choice spots or microclimates in which they thrive. One
well-known practitioner of geocarpy is the peanut, which also buries its
fruit in the soil. […]
The team dubbed it Spigelia genuflexa, named after the act of genuflection, or kneeling to the ground.
Rubber glove plant, (coral fungus).
Clavaria fragilis 9/15 in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Located in the Andes Mountains, in Spanish it’s called llareta, and it’s a member of the Apiaceae
family, which makes it a cousin to parsley, carrots and fennel. But
being a desert plant, high up in Chile’s extraordinarily dry Atacama, it
grows very, very slowly — a little over a centimeter a year.
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