Which plants can camouflage and what plants do?

In some parts of southern Africa, it is common to see grayish-black "pebbles" in the rocky thickets. Sometimes, these "pebbles" are filled with beautiful flowers. It turned out that it was not a pebble, but a plant!

This plant grows in stone bushes with only a few fat leaves that land on the ground. Its leaves resemble pebbles in both color and shape, and people have given it the name "Raw Stone Flower", which means a flower that grows on a stone. Raw stone flowers are similar in shape and color to pebbles, which can fool the eyes of herbivores and prevent them from being eaten!

This phenomenon of plants resembling the environment is called plant mimicry by scientists. The mimicry of plants is similar to that of animals, and they can protect themselves. In the Himalayan region of our country, there is a kind of "eye grass".

It looks like a cobra with its head sticking out its tongue! It often makes some small herbivores afraid to eat it, which can be regarded as a wonderful plant mimicry phenomenon.

There are some plants that can be camouflaged, such as large konjac, raw stone flower, horned bee eyebrow orchid, cobra bottle grass, etc. The horned bee eyebrow orchid is the least easy to see, its flower shape is similar to that of a wasp, and it can also secrete other bees to pollinate and reproduce. Cobra bottle grass is much like a cobra and can secrete some honey that insects will fall into the bottle and thus digest it.

Many of the plants we see actually have this camouflage, including the mimosa we see.

Plants that can camouflage are: raw stone flower, tortoiseshell grass, mimosa, Venus flytrap, etc.

1. Raw stone flowers.

It grows in southern Africa and looks like a stone-like flower. Its leaves are thick and juicy and cobbled in pebbles, which have a strong ability to hold water. Due to its special living environment, its flowering time is particularly short, and it usually withers in one day.

Because of its stone-like appearance and its preference for living in gravel, it is very conducive to deceiving animals and avoiding the danger of being eaten, so it is said to be the best camouflage plant in the world.

2. Tortoiseshell grass.

Tortoiseshell grass resembles a tortoise, hence the name. It also has a pattern similar to that of a tortoiseshell on its stem, which looks like a tortoiseshell in appearance, so as to hide itself from herbivores. It is found in the deserts of southern Africa, and during the dry season it curls up to look like a turtle, and when the rainy season comes, it grows branches and leaves from the shell, and later blooms and bears fruit.

3. Mimosa.

Mimosa's hometown is in Brazil, where storms are frequent. Mimosa has very delicate branches, and in order to adapt to this hostile environment, it has developed a knack for protecting itself through natural selection. Whenever the wind and rain come, the leaves are gathered up and the petioles hang low, so that they are not afraid of the ravages of the storm.

4. Venus flytrap.

Venus flytrap grows in North America and is a perennial herb with leaves arranged in a rosette-like shape and a peculiar structure of the leaves, with a fleshy, randomly opened and closed shell-like clip at the end of the leaf, and more than 10 long, stiff bristles growing on the edge of each half of the leaf. Usually, the "shell" opens outward, and a sweet smell is emitted from the nectar glands on the leaf margins. When the insect is hooked, once the bristles are touched, the two leaves close in a very short time, imprisoning the prey in a "cage".

The shell-like trap has become its "stomach" again. Secrete digestive juices in time to digest the prey slowly. When the prey has been completely digested, the leaves open again, waiting for the next prey to be caught.

Venus flytrap is a rare and interesting insectivorous plant that is cultivated and viewed by world-famous botanical gardens and plant lovers. Amazingly, the Venus flytrap can also distinguish between living and non-living things, and if you touch its sensory hairs with a pencil, it will not react at all, and the two "mussel shells" will not close.

Plants camouflage are supposed to belong to chestnuts, and the fruit they touch has a layer of spiky thorns on the outside to prevent animals from eating it.

As follows:

A plant called tortoiseshell grass uses the protruding patterns on the stems that resemble tortoiseshell to trick some unwary herbivores into eating them.

And in some arid areas, there will be some plants that look like small stones, this plant is called small stone grass, it grows very short, the color is gray-brown, and the pattern and color are similar to natural stones, very vivid.

Tortoiseshell grass growing environment:

Like a turtle. In the dry season when the sun is blazing, it is like a curled turtle, lying on the ground, seemingly lifeless.

But when the rainy season arrives, it quickly grows slender branches and lush leaves from the top of the shell-like stem, and grows rapidly, flowering and fruiting. During the dry season, the lush foliage withers and falls, leaving only the short stems of turtle shells to live. Since the short stem is protected by a shell that prevents the water inside from evaporating, it can keep it alive.

Tortoiseshell grass is a monocot of the dioceaceae family, and is a close relative of Chinese yams. Because of its ingenious ability to adapt to drought and protect itself, it can survive the drought season even if there is no rain for 100 days. In the next rainy season, it will flourish again.

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in southern Africa.

And in the arid and gravelly desert of the southwest, there is a very peculiar plant - the stone flower.

The two fleshy leaves are round in shape, almost like pieces of rubble half-buried in the soil. These "small stones" are gray-green, gray-brown or brownish-yellow, and some are inlaid with some dark patterns, like beautiful rain stones.

Others are covered in dark spots, like shards of granite.

I don't know how many travelers have been deceived by these "small stones".

and I don't know how many herbivores.

Turning a blind eye to them. Every winter and spring, these "small stones" will bloom into gorgeous flowers, and the patches of raw stone flowers cover the desert, and the branches are particularly beautiful. However, when the dry summer comes, the desert is a world of "gravel" again.

In the deserts of southern Africa, there is also a peculiar camouflage plant that shrinks its stems into a hemispherical shape and has tortoiseshells on its surface.

It looks very much like a tortoise shell, so people call it "tortoiseshell grass". In times of drought, all its branches and leaves die, and only Jane's hemispherical short stems are alive, like a turtle lying on the ground, so that it can fool the eyes of animals and survive itself. When the rainy season comes, branches and leaves grow very quickly at the top of the stem, flowering and fruiting.

The camouflage techniques of plants are: in the plant kingdom, some "smart" plants have practiced a superb camouflage technique in order to protect themselves: camouflage themselves as ordinary, which can avoid the eyes of animals; Make yourself look scary, you can scare the animals that want to hurt you; Dress yourself up like an insect and attract insects to pollinate.

Camouflage is a skill that plants have gradually developed over a long period of evolution, which is of great significance for their survival and reproduction.

Why do plants have to camouflage themselves, they're animals, they're spurting when they're in danger, like mimosas, or they're making their roots so bitter that insects won't bite or poison them.

In the extremely arid desert of southwestern Africa, a peculiar plant grows, the stone flower. When they are not blooming, they are like half-buried stones, some gray-green, some gray-brown, some covered with dark patterns, and some with dark spots all over the body. Every year from June to December, it is the most beautiful season of raw stone flowers, insulting the sky at noon, bright and dazzling flowers from the "stone cracks".

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The most common plant that can be disguised is the mimosa, the mimosa is very good at camouflage, once it is touched it will wither, this time to camouflage a way, in fact, it is not wilted, it is pretending to wilt, not allowing animals to eat it.