ISLAMIC ARTICLE - ~ Plants with interesting qualities

Compared to animals, plantsmay be seen as silent and motionless
beings. However, this silence shouldnot be thought of as a deficiency
of biological functions. Plants are capableof very surprising
behaviors, take special precautions to maintain their lives and have a
variety of methods to continue their lineage by the special abilities
bestowed on them by Allah.
Interesting Plants Created With Special Precautions to Adapt to Their
Environment
The Most Resistant Plant in the World: Welwitschia Mirabilis
This plant that dwells in desert environments in Namibia is created
with qualities very adaptive to conditions of drought. The stem of
this plant, which consists of two leaves, a strong stem and a root,
both gets longer and wider and reaches a height of two meters and a
width of eight meters. This plant, which draws even the slightest
moisture inside it through this stem, can live for five years with no
rain.
A Reviving Plant : Elaginella lepidophylla
The Selaginella lepidophylla also known as "Erica's rose" is also a
desert plant. The interesting thing about this plant is that it can
live with almost no water. This plant completely dries during times of
drought and turns into a ball by tucking in its branches and leaves.
However, when rains begin, it revives again by opening its branches
and leaves and starts all of its vital functions again.
Plant That Looks Like a Baseball: Euphorbia obese
Even though the orb shape ofthis cactus species known as"euphorbia
obese" makes it look like a baseball it is known for having the
least amount of surface area, and it stores the greatest amount of
water. The plant decreaseswater loss to a minimum and adapts to desert
conditions with its thick trunk and orb-like shape. The poisonous
juice of the plant is an effective substance thatprotects it from
other beings.
This plant, which is shaped with a tiny deep greened hunch and
decorated with eight tubes, is green like many other species of
cactus,but it also has a very decorative appearance with its red and
purple sections and the small flowers at the top. This plant is one of
the best examples of Allah's name, Al-Muzayyin (The Adorner).
As with all beings on earth, there is no doubt that Allah isthe One
Who places the necessary information inside the plants discussed here
to adapt to their environments, creates all things and knows about all
sorts of creation. Allah reveals this truth in oneverse:
"Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the sky and then in
the morning the earth is covered in green? Allah is All-Subtle,
All-Aware." (Surat al-Hajj, 63)
Plants That Develop Interesting Methods to Continue Their Lineage
The Biggest Flower of the World: Rafflesia Arnoldii
The flower of this plant, which is created for the climate conditions
of rain forests, has a diameter of 90 centimeters and a weight of
between seven to eleven kilograms. This biggest flower of the world
draws insects to itself with the scent it secretes for the threeto
seven days that it stays alive. This plant, which blossoms only once
in nine months, draws almost every insect to itself, spreads its
pollens and continues its lineage in this way.
A Plant That Smells Like Ammonia: Amorphophallus Titanum
Amorphophallus titanum, which is taller than a man, is named as "titan
arum" (carrion flower). Even thoughthis plant, which has the tallest
flower in the world, appears very elegant, it begins to spread a sharp
smelling ammonia gas (NH3).The last structure of the plantis as
interesting as the smell it spreads. The section, where the pollens
are, is at the bottom of the leafy structure and it cannot be seen
from outside. Therefore, spreading smells is not enough to attract
insects' attention. When pollens are ready to be fertilized, the
flower warms the outer part of the flower with its smell. So the
warming and smell, which takes place only during the morning times and
within a day, is very attractive for insects. Scientists, who try to
find an answer to the question of how this heat and smell appears,
found that as a result of the acceleration in the plant's metabolism,
a special acid came into being. This substance called "glutanamicacid"
is broken down chemically and spreads heat and odors. Thanks to
this, insects come to the flower. However, this is not enough for
insects. Because the pollen dust of amoorphophallus titanium is inside
specialized sacs closedat the bottom, the flower is prepared for this.
Due to its greased outer surface, insects fall into the flower and
cannot climb up from theslippery walls. There is a sweet fluid
produced by the flower's female organs in this section.

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