Fascinating Flora facts
Fascinating Facts of Plants
Science is the search for truth and knowledge,
Botany is one of the most exciting subject to explore about plants
Living things are sensitive to changes in their surrounding.
Different creatures react in different ways to changes for their growth and survival.
This blog post highlights on such changes eg. response to stimuli.
The degree of responding stimuli varies with each organism.
An organism's reaction to stimuli is called response.
Sunflower showing response to stimuli:
Sun is the ultimate source of light and heat energy.
Sunflowers follow the sun and change accordingly due to their biological clocks known as internal circadian clock.
They face east in the morning and follow the sun during the day. The stem of the plant turns towards sun
While facing the east the flower gets heat faster and attracts pollinating insects as bees like warm flowers !
At the time of sunset flowers droops or shrinks.
As per the researchers when plants were tracking sun, east side of stem grow rapidly and in the night the west side grow faster.
Touch me not plant - Mimosa pudica
Creeping annual or perennial flowering plant of pea or legume family.
Popular plant shows response to stimuli - touch of any organism.
The compound leaves fold inward and droop when touched or shaken.
Can be grown at home garden for curiosity of children. They love this amazing plant !
The plant closes its compound leaves so rapidly that's why it also called as shy plant !
Very sensitive plant makes us curious to know the scientific reason !
Even if a branch has been touched by any organism, all the leaves are quickly closed and after some time again opens. As the sun sets again closes
well known but ever interesting plant !
Morning glory flowers and Office flowers
response to Sun- stimulus
common sight in many landscapes and may be found in number of species. Blooms in full sunlight and a vine located in shade may not bloom.
'Heavenly Blue' !
Morning glories known as ipomoea is a creeper plant with large trumpet shaped flowers and heart shaped leaves.
The fragrant attracts butterflies and bees when they bloom in early summer. There are diversity in colour.
Easy to grow, fast growing and some varieties also used as a ground cover.
Blooms in the morning and close-up in the afternoon.
Venus Flytrap Plant
This carnivorous plant shows response to stimuli- insects.
It has electrical stimulation
There is a midrib and a tropical shaped lobe on the upper part of leaf which has hair like structure and traps the insects !
As the insect attracts towards this leaf, it closes the leaf rapidly and eats the insect.
The process of closing leaf and trapping insect is really
strange !
Foxtail orchid
Rhynchostylis retusa plant
is an exotic blooming orchid, belong to Vanda alliance.
Fluffy, tapering fox tail is incredibly beautiful !
Consist more than 100 pink or purple spotted white flowers
This flower is recognised as a state flower of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam !
Also found in Sri Lanka
One more fact is that it is also called as Draupadi Mala !
Thanks for reading and follow this blog for more updates in coming days
Purvi
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