Top 10 Amazing Flora

Nowadays, many children just know about the natural environment through through Internet, especially the children who lives in the development city. This is because they have no chance to touch with natural environment that already displace by the build environment especially the flora

Flora is the name given to the collective plant life that grows or once grew in a certain area or during a given time period. All of the flora needs many years to growth up, but the human being always destroy it just a eye wink only. Can you believe that we have about 45 thousand species of flora all around the world? In this total of flora species, how many flora that you know? Let me introduce the top 10 amazing flora i this world in my blog. 

1. Pitcher Plant

    - Native to South East Asia

    - Deep cavity filled with special fluid to 
      catch the prey

    - Has most mysterious leaf structure 
      and features special digestive enzymes

2. Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)

    - Found in the Eastern Carolia especially 
       in wet inhabitants

    - Consumes small insects and animals as
       food

    - Digest the insects within a time span of 
      10 days.

3. Rafflesia Arnoldii

    - Found in forests of Sumatra

    - The biggest and smelly

 

  

 4. Corpse Flower (Titan Arum)

    - Endemic to Sumatra

    - Plant stands at 8.2 feet tall

    - The smelliest and largest flower in the 
       world

  

 5. Mimosa Pudica (Sensitive Plant/ Shy 
     Plant)

     - Native to South America

     - Leaves immediately fold up on touch

    

 6. Lithop

     - Found in South Africa

     - Look like stones or pebbles

     - Live for more than 50 years
    

7. Welwitschia Mirabilis

     - Only found in the desert of Namibia

     - Survive within many extreme weather 
        conditions

     - Has two leaves that grow continuously 
       over time

     - Separate male and female plants.

 8. Hydnellum Peckii (Bleeding tooth 
     fungus)

     - Found across North America and 
       Europe

     - Produce blood or juice like fluid

     - Has an unpleasant odor
     - The color of fluids can be varied as 
       orange or pink
   

9. Baseball Plant (Euphorbia Obesa)
     - Native to South Africa
     - Male and female flowers grow on 
       different plants
     - Toxic and will cause skin problem
     - Average height of plants is 20cm tall

10. White Baneberry (Doll's Eye) 
     - Native to North America forests
     - Fruits are toxic (size is 6mm)
     - Plant stands 60cm tall