In the plant kingdom, there is such a plant, its flower buds are symmetrical like looking at the mirror, people call it a "mirror flower" plant, this plant is very drought-tolerant, also known as "recovery plant", it can survive in the harsh condition of less than 5% of its own water content, although the appearance looks like it is dead; When the water is regained, it can be magically "resurrected", and today I will take you to understand this plant.
Rust-colored spider moss
It is called rust-colored spider hairy moss, mostly distributed in China's Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou and other places, it is a perennial herb of the genus Arachnid in the family Aphioaceae. Its rhizomes are woody and stout, and its leaves are opposite, oblong or narrowly oval, with small blunt teeth on the edges, and the leaves have villi on and below, and the rust-colored underneath.
Rust-colored spider hairy moss flowers
As we all know, water is the source of life, and without water plants there is no life. Generally, the water content in the body of plants is 60 to 80%, and some even reach more than 90%, for many plants around us, like a slight drought can defend themselves, but in the face of severe drought, it is not enough.
However, in nature, there are such a small number of plants that can survive extreme water shortages, this plant is called a revival plant, and the rust-colored spider moss is one of these plants.
Extremely arid arachnid moss
Then some people will ask, its leaves dry and can it survive? The answer is that even if the plant is drought to the point where the cells have lost more than 90% of their water, they can quickly return to their growth state as long as they encounter water.
Rust-colored spider hairy moss in times of drought
Plants such as rust-colored spider hairy moss in particularly arid habitats, it will shrink the leaves to avoid absorbing excessive light to cause harm to the plant, it adopts a contrary strategy, that is, rapid and complete dehydration, weaken physiological metabolic activity, into a similar dormant state to survive the dry period, once there is water, can quickly recover, is not very interesting.
Come I dig one for everyone to see, this root system is still quite developed, beautiful, just go back to make a potted plant.
In China, the record of the phenomenon of reviving plants can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen's record of the curly cypress in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Curly cypress, long live the name, immortal grass, can be dried, through immersion in water, it is said that the dry specimen of the cedar after 11 years, immersed in water, can actually restore the soul to revive and rejuvenate, can not imagine it, there is such a magical plant."
Curly cypress
Rust-colored spider hairy moss generally blooms from June to September. It is a pity that it did not catch up with its flower season to shoot, its flowers are very beautiful, generally blooming are a cluster of clusters, let's take a look at whether these two flowers are different, the middle of the flower buds one on the left, one on the right, is not like a flower in the mirror as symmetrical left and right, very magical, people call this plant a mirror flower plant, mirror flower plant is not only in the bitter moss plant, like legumes, onions, purple jasmine family and other more than ten families have existed, another day to shoot another family of plants for everyone to see.
In the magical natural world, there are far more than the phenomena of "reviving plants" and "mirror flowers", and there are many mysteries waiting for people to explore and discover.