Meet the planet’s rarest plants
Unlike cute and cuddly fauna such as the polar bear or the giant panda, that are easy to love and raise awareness around,endangered flora are understandably not seen on top of conservation list (after all, you can’t hug a cactus!); but it doesn’t hurt to be aware about them.
Life is precious!The Colorado red plant conservation initiative is a partnership of 23 state agencies private organisations and academic institutions working to protect 12 rare plant species in Colorado.Measures taken by them include formulating best practices to reduce energy development impact in focus to strategies for conservation of individual species in a priority landscapes.
Mice-gobbler :
This pitcher plant is so use that it can easily trap mice and digest, named after the naturalist David.The plant is found on the summit of mount Victoria in pallavan Philippines it was discovered into 2007 when two Christian missionaries climbed the mountain.
The plant’s pitcher is about 2–3 cm height.It is filled with sweet nectar, when the rat patches on the ring to drink, it slips on the wax then walls and falls in the plant , it digests while it is still alive.According to estimates there are just a few 100’s of these left.
Jellyfish tree:
Its fruit looks uncannily like a jellyfish when broken upon the jellyfish trees found only on Mahe,an Island in the seychelles. It was actually thought to be extinct when it was read discovered in the 1970’s.It is the only living member of its family and there are only 86 mature jellyfish she is left in the wild some of them no longer reproduce.
Suicide Palm :
It flowers only once !
It is so tall that it can be seen on Google Earth.The suicide palm grows in an accessible part of Madagascar. It is about 18 m tall and it’s fan like fronts are 5 meters across these trees of which they are about 90 remaining of first discovered in 2005 when the calcium plantation manager who was on a picnic in the area.The world knew about it only in 2008 when it was scientifically studied.
