The battery cars in the scenic area all stop at designated points and hop on and off. The team leader asked for a separate battery car to follow them. This is how they can really go and stop when they want.
The first stop is the Aquatic Botanical Garden, where big and round lotus leaves float like bathtubs on the water.
"This is Wang Lian, a flower whose leaves are more famous than its flowers." He Huan said, "Because the flower has such a weird temper, you have no chance to see it without any luck."
"Why?"
"Because its flowering period is only three days. It blooms in the evening and closes during the day. It has three colors in three days. Oh, what kind of fairy tale is this?"
"Hahaha..." the tourists became happy.
"It usually opens quietly on a certain night in the summer, white and fragrant, and then closes up during the next day. At night, it opens again and turns pink. Then on the third day it blooms.
It turns purple, closes and sinks into the water.
That’s why she is called a fickle goddess! She is indeed very similar to a woman. On the first night, she came with a fairy spirit, pure and pure. On the second night, she came with a pink face and a shy face. On the third day, she didn’t say hello.
Suddenly it disappeared."
"Hahaha……"
“I really want to see it!”
"Come and watch it next summer! But its leaves can be viewed for up to half a year, so it is also a foliage plant. If you feel slim, you can go up and take a photo!"
The tourists were eager to try it out. After all, they were adults, but they still didn’t go up. They took photos nearby, then got on the battery car and continued forward.
The air in the botanical garden is fresh, the oxygen can be seen and touched, and it is full when you take a breath.
Everyone is in a better mood.
From a distance, I saw two trees hugging each other, one with yellowing branches and leaves drooping, and the other with green branches and leaves, like lovers embracing and dancing, it was so beautiful.
"Is this a lover's tree?" A female tourist said lovingly, nestling in the arms of a male tourist next to her.
He Huan smiled and said, "This is called Xiaomi sugar daddy."
The female tourist immediately sat up straight, while the male tourist looked embarrassed.
He Huan said: "I don't know which rich man got this. This is not an ordinary Xiaomi, this is a strong man with lofty goals."
Everyone was curious: "Why?"
"Look closer and you will know."
After a while, the battery car stopped, the tourists got off the car and ran towards the two trees.
I saw that the tree that was entangled in the middle was rotten.
"ah!"
Everyone looked up again and looked at the palm tree that was entangled. The leaves were droopy and yellow. In the green botanical garden, it was very eye-catching. It turned out that it was not a normal yellow, but a withered yellow.
"Little Bailong, is the tree in the middle dead?"
"Yes! This is strangulation!" He Huan said.
"Strangulation?"
"Yeah. It's a common and unique phenomenon in tropical rainforests. Palm trees are originally simple commanders, trying hard to use their thick trunks to lift long and huge green leaves like umbrellas to the sky. They are evergreen and long-lived, and the leaves can kill people if they fall.
He can be considered a hero.
But one day, a bird flew through the woods. By chance, its droppings fell into the cracks of its bark. There was a seed hidden in the bird's droppings. This seed was too hard, so it didn't
If it can be digested, it is destined to see the light of day again.
It lies in the bark of a palm tree, feels the sun and rain, and begins to swell. The hard shell cracks and sprouts.
Compared with those seeds that need to be grown in the soil, it inherently knows how to seize all opportunities around it.
But it is not content to rely on palm trees, in which case it can only grow into ferns or moss like other epiphytes on rainforest trees. Its ideal is to grow into a towering tree!"
"oh!"
"So it produced many aerial roots, like capillaries, gently climbing along the trunk of the palm tree, winding around, slowly hanging down, and finally reached the ground.
The moment it pierces its own blood vessels into the ground, it becomes the host!
The rich nutrients in the ground cause its blood vessels to expand rapidly and connect tightly together. It tightly wraps around the palm tree like a net.
Downward, it robs the palm tree of nutrients, and the rich nutrients support its branches and leaves to grow rapidly; upward, it robs the palm tree of sunlight.
Eventually, the nutrients in the ground and the sunlight above the head are no longer available to the palm tree. It loses all vitality, its branches rot, and its leaves fall.
This seed has changed from parasitism to independence. It is the famous rainforest killer, the strangler fig!"
"ah!"
"So how can this be called Xiaomi Sugar Daddy? This is clearly someone who has knowledge and foresight, and uses a very high platform to squeeze out all the resources of the platform to achieve higher achievements."
"ah!"
The face of the female tourist changed, and the male tourist next to her also looked embarrassed.
"Isn't this too cruel?" another female tourist said.
"Wars between humans and animals are often thrilling, but wars in the plant world are long and silent. There are many dense plants in the rainforest, and it is not easy to survive.
The relationship between plants, such as the female dill attached to the pines and cypresses, is a friendly symbiotic relationship. You provide me with nutrients and I help with photosynthesis. This is true everywhere in Pudacuo.
But the living environment in the rainforest is much crueler. Parasitic plants, like the female dill, are tender and affectionate. They are willing to become a small grass and will not let the big tree die.
Just like the banyan tree, it is not willing to be a small grass. It was born to be a big tree, and it will seize every opportunity. This cannot be blamed on it, it is actually unfortunate."
"What's so unfortunate about it?" Everyone said, they really hated this banyan tree!
"Because the lucky one has already fallen on the ground, its trunk is straight, and it is growing up quickly. But unfortunately, it did not get a place on the land, but fell on another tree. What should I do?
It was born from a big tree, and it will not give up becoming a big tree. It can only wrap around other trees like earthworms, eventually taking its place, and trying to grow into a towering tree."
"Ah!" No one knew what to say.
That's especially true for tourists, who don't say a word.
"There's another tree over there." The team leader led them over.
When everyone looked inside, they couldn't tell what kind of tree was inside. It was completely hollow. Only the aerial roots were intertwined, covering the ground like a cage.
"This tree is really scary!"
He Huan looked up at another big tree next to him, "This hemlock has just climbed down with its aerial roots."
Everyone also raised their heads and really saw the thin roots like earthworms from top to bottom. When they didn't understand it, they just felt it was magical. When they understood its method of survival, they felt physical discomfort.
"How pitiful!" a girl shouted, "Can we save this hemlock?"
"This is the law of nature." He Huan said.
"Then let's go quickly! I can't stand it anymore!"
Everyone laughed.
"There's no way around it. When you see a big tree die, you don't know how many small trees and grass have died. The size of the tree means the size of the root system.
It is a wonderful dream to hide under a big tree and become a small tree. In fact, under the big trees in tropical rainforests, small trees will basically die. Because the root system of the big tree will expand underground, squeezing the roots of other small trees, and finally only
Can die.
So if you want to survive in the rain forest, you have to work hard to grow taller! This is how the sky tree came to be! As the saying goes, the wind will destroy the trees if they are beautiful in the forest, but in the rain forest, the trees must be beautiful in the forest to survive this dense and harsh environment.
Fight for a piece of space in the rainforest!"
"Ah!" Everyone looked up at the dense rain forest and the towering trees that blocked the sky. They never expected that cruel wars were everywhere in this quiet forest.
The team leader looked at him with a smile and led them forward.
He Huan stopped by a large tree, "Look, this is also a banyan tree, but it didn't fall on other trees, but on the ground. Look at its trunk, including its aerial roots.
straight?"
"Yeah!" Everyone nodded.
"This is a lucky brother. It fell on the ground, sprouted and grew. The main trunk was straight and branches grew. Then aerial roots appeared on the branches and fell to the ground. They absorbed nutrients, thickened and became pillar roots.
These pillar roots have a spirit of dedication and unity. They do not branch, grow leaves, or move upward. They strictly perform their duties, which is to absorb water and nutrients from the ground.
It supports the branches that expand outward and supports the continuous expansion of the canopy. The pillars and roots are connected, the pillars and branches support each other, and the branches and leaves expand, eventually becoming a wonder of blocking out the sky and the sun, and a single tree becomes a forest."
"Oh!" Everyone looked up, it was really spectacular, and when they saw the aerial roots, they were no longer disgusted.
"When you see a single tree growing into a forest, you have to marvel at its greatness! But strangulation is actually another way of survival it chooses in that small environment. This is the wisdom of plants. This is called a man who can bend and stretch, and it is also called incompetence.
You can’t poison your husband!”
The tourists all laughed.
"It doesn't want to choose that way. If it falls on the ground, it can form a forest by itself. If it falls on other trees, some aerial roots are not strong enough, and the parasitic tree in the middle will die, and it will not be able to support it.
Falling down with the parasitic tree."
Along the way, I saw many strangulation trees that had fallen on the ground, like warriors fighting together until death.
Everyone was shocked.
"Ah! The plant world is so cruel!"
"Nature is inherently beautiful and cruel." He Huan said, "However, one tree can form a forest, and one tree can strangle other trees. I don't think other trees in the tropical rain forest want to know this brother."
"Hahaha……"
Leaving this cruel strangulation forest and going to another forest, a male tourist ran to a tree and asked, "Why are the trunks of other trees round, but this one looks like a fan bone?"
He Huan was speechless. Everyone laughed, including the team leader.
"Why don't you say that all other trees look like tube bones, but it is the only one that looks like fan bones?" He Huan said.
The tourists are going crazy laughing.
"This fan bone..." He Huan said.
"Hahaha……"
"It's called Dabangen. It's not just one fan bone, it's several fans."
Everyone circled around the tree, which was indeed supported by several fan bones.
"Some people say that it was blown by the wind when it grew up, and in order to withstand the strong wind, it grew its trunk into a wall. But the fact is that this is an endangered plant, and plants with personality are always vulnerable to danger."
Everyone looked at him with a smile.
"Its endangerment is inseparable from itself. Its native seeds are also very small, but it has the ideal to grow into a towering tree. It has grown like this since it was a child in the airtight woods. This should be related to its
Genes are involved.
There is no conclusion yet. Therefore, the botanical garden is also a scientific research unit, and botanists are still observing and researching. Plants have a long growth cycle, and they cannot speak or move, so they require more patience and care than animal research."
The team leader nodded.
"Oh my God! Is it also entangled in the banyan tree?" A tourist worriedly pointed to a winding vine next to the root of the tree.
"No," the team leader said, "This is a vine, just a little strong."
"Hahaha……"
"Vines and aerial roots are different." He Huan said, "The most fundamental difference is that aerial roots go into the ground from top to bottom, while vines work hard to go up to the sky."
"Will it be strangled by the banyan tree?" The female tourist who wanted to save the tree worried again.
"This is an endangered plant protection park." the team leader comforted.
Everyone laughed, but it was still different after all.
After walking a little further, he saw a restroom in the woods. He Huan asked the tourists to go to the restroom and quickly picked up his mobile phone and called Master Zhou: "How is it? Is the law enforcement team here?"
"Here he is, he's here, trying to persuade them."
"Okay." He Huan was relieved. The law enforcement team is here. We can't let the inspectors be so tyrannical, right? After all, they are a higher level, regular army.