2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Not so many plants on our planet have managed to survive in their original form since ancient times, which a person learns about by studying the layers of rocks. The rich flora that adorned the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago left memories of itself in the form of fossilized specimens, surprising and delighting. And only a few plant species have managed to survive to this day, preserving the genetic memory of the past of our common home. It is a pity that they cannot tell about this in human language, although without this they give food to the meticulous minds of botanists and other scientists. And a simple person, looking at ancient plants, will ponder and admire the creations of the unknown Creator of life
Ferns
Ferns are the most ancient and mysterious representatives of higher plants, born four hundred million years ago and have managed to survive to this day. They owe this to the Creator of life, who endowed plants with resistance to changes in the environment, including waterlogging; delightful ecological plasticity; fantastic "fertility" of a plant that does not bloom, does not bear fruit (in the usual sense of the word), but produces spores. The number of spores produced by Ferns is so great that the plant has become ubiquitous and multifaceted, attracting human attention with its picturesqueness, mystery and enviable vitality. Today, Ferns have become welcome guests in private gardens, flanked by vibrant flowering plants.
Ginkgo biloba tree
The Ginkgo tree is a younger representative of terrestrial vegetation compared to Ferns. The plant is only two hundred and seventy million years old. Unlike the ubiquitous Fern, Ginkgo was considered an extinct plant, which scientists learned from its fossilized remains. One can imagine the surprise and joy of botanists who discovered the tree in the hard-to-reach Chinese forests, which are still preserved in this densely populated country. After all, when you fly on an airplane over the territory of China, you get the impression that the whole country is one continuous city. And only occasionally are dense forests visible, hiding riddles and discoveries from people.
Ginkgo differs from Fern in the presence of real leaves, which have an amazing shape of butterfly wings, picturesque male and nondescript female flowers, as well as edible, albeit foul-smelling, fruits. The leaves of the tree are actively promoted today as a healing agent. However, official medicine is skeptical about this.
Cycads Born in the Jurassic Period
The Creator made the cycads very simply, decorating the earth's land with them in the warm Jurassic period of the planet's life, which lasted almost six tens of millions of years, ending with a cold snap one hundred and twenty-five million years ago. Such time periods simply cannot be grasped by the human mind, and therefore the Cycads deserve respect and sincere admiration that they managed to endure the "whims" of the earth's climate, in contrast to the formidable and huge dinosaurs who preferred to disappear from the face of the Earth, rather than adapt to weather changes.
The simplicity of the Cycad's natural life processes does not prevent the plant from looking very impressive. Its dark green leaves on strong stems are not inferior in their beauty and grace to the leaves of the natural beauty - Palm. Many people call the plant “Sago palm”, although Palms are a completely different story of the life of the plant world of our planet. The spectacular appearance of Sagovnikov happily gets along with the plant's unpretentiousness to living conditions, which is actively used by landscape designers. Among the variety of types of thermophilic Cycads, there are quite cold-resistant ones, capable of withstanding a drop in temperature to minus ten degrees, if the cold snap is of a short-term nature.
The cycad is not only the antiquity of the planet, but also a source of food, as well as an effective healer of modern human ailments. From the starchy substance of the stems and the core of the trunk, an edible cereal called "sago" is prepared. Medicinal drugs from Cygovnik can inhibit the development of malignant tumors, the "plague" of our time.
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