As the saying goes, "Planting melons gets melons, and planting beans gets beans." "So, if you plant plants and plant sheep, can you also plant a sheep?"
There is a creature, its name is plant sheep, listening to this name like a combination of plants and sheep, it can be said to be a plant, it can also be said to be an animal, but it is not a plant nor an animal, it is between the two, is a complex combination, so far, no one can specifically explain whether it is an animal or a plant, and the legendary plant sheep really exists?
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > two strange forms</h1>
The plant sheep is a creature that exists in distant legends. It has been recorded in ancient China and medieval Europe. It belongs neither to plants nor to animals, but is a mysterious creature between plants and animals.
This mysterious being, as its name suggests, appears to be a sheep, but has the roots and leaves of a plant. It is also like the rhizome of a plant, opening up a sheep-like shape.
According to records, there are two forms under the name of the plant sheep, one is a lamb growing out of the pod, but it looks like a sheep, the size of a bean, and does not belong to the vitality of the sheep. In addition to the appearance and form, it is generally the same as ordinary plants.
The other plant, sheep, is more inclined to grow on the side of the sheep. Not only does it look like a sheep, it looks like a sheep, and it looks like a sheep as a whole. It can move, it can bark, and when it is touched, it will make a "babbling" sound like a sheep. He also takes the initiative to eat plants such as grass around him.
In addition, there is only a rhizome under the body of its sheep, which is deeply tied to the soil, so that the plant sheep cannot move freely. Its umbilical cord is connected to the rhizome of the plant, and only by cutting off the rhizome and without the transport of nutrients, the sheep of this plant will die.
Hindered by the fact that the plant sheep cannot move freely, after it has eaten all the food around it, grass and plant things, there is no food for later survival, and it will slowly die. Such a magical and strange existence has indeed aroused the curiosity of many people, but there are still many people who doubt whether this creature really existed in past history.
Some people have experimented with the birth of plant sheep, believing that plant sheep can be cultivated by artificial means. It's like the famous Cordyceps sinensis. Winter is a worm, summer is a grass. Such a magical existence has been questioned by some people, but after revealing the truth of the facts, everyone has also believed it, and the cordyceps sinensis has become famous in the world.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > cordyceps sinensis that has been questioned</h1>
Cordyceps, like its eccentric name, is peculiarly shaped: it is said to be an animal, its roots are deeply rooted in the soil, and it has a blade of grass on its head; it is said to be like a plant, and its roots are a bug with a head and a mouth, and 8 pairs of neat feet.
How did this strange thing come about? Is this existence a plant or an animal? Why do they have such a strange appearance?
It turns out that there is an insect called the "bat moth", which lays its eggs in the soil when spring comes, and then dies quietly. After 1 month of incubation in the soil, the eggs are white and fat and the larvae break out of the soil.
There is a fungus, the grass worm, which has been waiting here for a long time, and as soon as it encounters this white fat and delicious larvae, it drills into the larvae, and then sucks the nutrients in the worm's body and lives a carefree parasitic life. In the winter, the larvae are abandoned in the soil, and due to the proliferation of parasitic bacteria in the body, the insect cannot wait to climb out of the ground, and the head is facing upwards, and it dies.
When the climate is warm, the fungus that originally inhabited the larvae breaks through the soil and grows a rod about 10 cm long and ellipsoidal at the head of the larval shell. Therefore, it has grown a strange appearance that resembles both insects and grass. People gave it the strange name of "Cordyceps sinensis" based on this strange appearance.
Cordyceps sinensis, although strange in appearance, has great uses in the medical community. It is very effective for tonifying the lungs and benefiting the kidneys, treating fatigue cough, blood in sputum, asthma, low back pain and other diseases.
And how does the fungus burrow into the body of the larvae, and how does it finally grow a grass from the mouth of the larvae after parasitizing in the larvae for so long? It's still a mystery.
It is precisely because of the precedent of Cordyceps sinensis that people also have a strong interest in exploring this legendary plant sheep. There is also speculation that this plant sheep is like Cordyceps sinensis and has great medicinal value.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the survival rule of "natural selection, survival of the fittest"</h1>
Darwin's "natural selection, survival of the fittest" can also prove that the plant sheep may really exist. They may be due to the inability to move the rhizome freely, to catch food, and the disadvantage of waiting for death after eating the surrounding food, resulting in survival that cannot adapt to the environment at that time, so they perish.
It may be possible that some plant sheep broke free of the shackles of the rhizome and umbilical cord, and their limbs fell to the ground, becoming the normal sheep-like existence seen today.
There is also a suspicion of the speculation of the plant sheep, which is actually a fern. The woolly fern is suspected to be a plant sheep recorded in ancient books. Because of its extremely high starch content, some regions also use it to eat together, and when grilled, as food, it tastes better.
The old name of hairy ferns is sheep tooth plants, because there are several species of ferns with thinly cracked leaves such as sheep teeth, so close to the image metaphor, people wonder whether the plant sheep refers to the previous ferns, but this speculation is only part.
Some scientists want to cultivate plants into the form of plant sheep by the same process of cultivating Cordyceps sinensis. A part of the ram's genes were watered to form fungal pollution, put into the soil to cultivate plants, and let the rhizome plants grow into a sheep-like form, so as to realize his idea of breeding plant sheep.
Whether it is the traces of the existence of the Middle Ages, or the records of books and historical records between different regions in ancient times. Different people have different meanings for the presence or absence of plant sheep.
Some people think that existence is reasonable, plant sheep may have existed, but because they do not adapt to the laws of survival of nature and go extinct, some people think that this magical and strange creature is just a fabrication of someone, sensationalism, do not think so.
In any case, the existence of things always has its meaning, and the past years have passed too much, even if you want to pursue it now, you can't explore it. But through other things, step by step, it can be speculated to achieve the final goal.
Just as people doubt whether hairy ferns are plant sheep, people speculate about the formation process of plant sheep by analogy with Cordyceps sinensis.
Even if the current scientific and technological means and technological level cannot let people go back to the past as they wish, and explore the scenes that were once recorded in the text, people's wisdom is enough to prove that even if there is no corresponding technical means, they can also use their brains to knock on the side, and learn from each other.
Whether the plant sheep exists or not, it is indeed recorded in the historical texts of the past. Maybe people have heard it and forgotten it, just as a joke, or maybe people are curious and explore. The law of "natural selection, survival of the fittest" exists not only among plants and animals, but also among humans.