Australia's specialty plant - grasstree (grasstree), scientific name grass gum tree. It is a very slow-growing plant that takes hundreds of years to reach maturity, and it is only found in Australia.
The reproductive state of the grass tree can produce new plants through seeds and "stem-walking reproduction".
Stem-walking propagation: The long transverse stems that grow from the leaf clusters are called walking stems.
The nodes are covered with leaves, flowers and adventitious roots, and can also produce young plants. Separate small plants and plant them separately to form new plants.
Such as hanging orchid, tiger ear grass and so on.
Hanging orchid
saxifrage
The creeping stem is similar to the walking stem, but the internodes are slightly shorter, transverse the ground and grow adventitious roots and shoots at the nodes, such as strawberries, grasses, turf plants dogtooth root, and bison grass.
Dog tooth root
Bison grass
10 years out of the tree pole, 3 years of fruit
The grass tree is really a very slow-growing plant, and the process of its pole formation takes 10 years, because his pole is formed by the accumulation of the remaining parts of the base of countless leaves, and it is the pine resin-like mucus that it secretes to form the tree pole.
It can grow 1-2 cm per year, and the highest record of this plant is rarely more than 4 meters, because they grow too slowly, they do not grow 1 meter at a height of hundreds of years, it is observed that every 2-3 cm it will form a inflorescence, it grows very fast when it blooms, about 300 mm per day, but the fruit matures in a very long process, about 2-3 years.
Is the trunk home?
The trunk of the grass tree attracts a large number of lizards and insects to settle down, and when it blooms, its nectar attracts a large number of insects such as bees, hummingbirds, butterflies and ants.
Although grass and trees are a protected plant, the Australian government has also issued corresponding management regulations to clean up some dead plants and slow-growing diseased plants, which can save land, save water resources, and promote better growth of surrounding seedlings.
They were also studied intensively by local councils, developing management programmes to make these native plants grow healthier so that they did not become extinct.
How mysterious?
This tree is difficult to evolve from any kind of creature on Earth because it is not related to any kind of plant we can find on Earth.
Moreover, not only is his appearance very peculiar, but his bark is also very rare, the texture feels like a cork, but it has a honeycomb-like structure.
Outer layer of grass leaves (after being burned)
resin
Wander through the heather-shrouded wasteland and dry sclerophyll forest, especially in the east and southwest of Australia, and you'll most likely spot a grass gum tree (grass tree).
The slowest-growing tree in the world, unique to Australia, the oldest plant in the world, was really curious about his origins.
Why in Australia and not in China?
Huaxia Tree God
In ancient mythology, the tree of life and the tree of fusang are the mythical manifestations of this understanding, because the clouds and rains of incarnated things are controlled by the tree god, therefore, the tree god has become the master of the fertility of all things, which can make the six animals prosperous, the grain is abundant, and it is worshiped as the supreme god of ancient times.