World of trees and plants
Plant wonders 'Poor plants, they cannot even walk ,' people generally say. But are plants really so poor and helpless? Definitely not.many plants are blessed with survival skills and surpass those of even the cleverest of animals. For instance, there are plants that are adept at hunting ,a d others that have ways to defend themselves. The pitcher plant is a well know plant that hunts insects by trapping them in its leaves. Look at the all-too-familiar,'touch me not'.Touch it, a d the plants drops, and drops,and withdraws like a shy child .in fact ,it is cleverly defending itself by playing dead! There are plants that are good at Camouflage and adaptation too,like living stone and baobab. Top food plants Every year the people of world eat more than 3 billion tonnes of cereals, 950 million tonnes of vegetables and 700 million tonnes of fruit. These figures come from the food and agriculture organization of United nations, or FAO,which is based in ...
