Orchid: regenerating a plant from
You do not have to look far, orchids are everywhere, and for good reason: they have existed for a long time. A recent study to rank as the oldest flowering plants in the world since they have more than 80 000 million years. They have succeeded where the dinosaurs have failed or survived the passage of the Mesozoic era in the tertiary era, there are over 65 000 million years.
Unique adaptation the orchid is unfortunately mistaken for a parasite by non experts. Indeed, its roots wrapped around the trunks and branches of trees to better capture the sun it needs so much. However, it will dig no roots in the tree, she is helped by other elements to survive: it grows out of specific bacteria and feeds on the biological degradation of natural elements.
Through its evolution, the orchid has used all the tricks for Polonized and became the spitting image of the butterfly and ended up taking the same colors and tasks of yellow and black bees. Is this really what attracts the insect she wants? Nothing is proven, but the effect is stunning. She even developed a new way to stay on this Earth: The natural cloning. With its keikis, it only multiplies, and this combined with the recycling of elements, it's almost like it is a plant "intelligent" that does not directly from the earth but its release. This time, biological footprint on the planet is practically zero in contrast to us and say that it is a plant!
In addition to using all the elements around it to survive, it adapts and resists all climates. It is found in South America at 35 °, -5 ° to Nepal in full humidity Southeast Asia is dry or east of Australia. Each year new orchids are born, an average of 500 new species appear in a decade.
Here is an exceptional plant, strong, adaptable and beautiful. It is by observing that Charles Darwin was able to find much food for his theory of evolution. It could almost inspire a destiny.