Plants Of The Dinosaur Era

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Hundreds of millions of years ago, bizarre powerful dinosaurs roamed the earth's paths, feeding on the foliage of no less powerful plants. Apparently, the Almighty at that time suffered from gigantomania, and therefore inhabited the planet with such creatures. Dinosaurs became extinct, and the meek plants, which God deprived of their legs, managed to survive, carrying to our days the spirit of those fabulous and fantastic times

Golden ginkgo tree

It seems that a tree that managed to survive a very difficult period in the history of the Earth, when living organisms with legs could not find shelter and died, leaving the planet almost lifeless, now nothing in life is afraid.

These are the ancestors of the pitiful remnants of living creatures from the Cretaceous period, trembling with fear, looking at the erupting volcanoes, the earth cracking from the earthquake, or the towering waves of the seas raised by the force of underwater earthquakes. Indeed, in that tragic period of earthly life, every nine out of ten inhabitants of the seas and oceans died, and among the land inhabitants of the planet, only one in three remained.

BUT

ginkgo tree not only does not tremble with fear, but for hundreds of millions of years of its presence on Earth, it has learned to perfectly adapt to changing climatic conditions. Moreover, the appearance of the tree, judging by the findings of geologists, has not changed at all. But the plant's ability to tolerate cold and heat equally well, not to succumb to the provocations of parasitic fungi, to repel attacks of pathogenic viruses and insect pests is surprising and delightful.

Moreover, if the human body reacted to air pollution in cities with allergies and an increase in viral diseases, then Ginkgo, it seems, did not even notice such changes.

Long-liver Ginkgo grows slowly, matures by the age of forty, and then, until old age, bears fruit with edible fruits, the smell of which, however, is not to everyone's taste.

The tree successfully continues to decorate city parks with its pyramidal crown. The unique shape of the leaves of Ginkgo makes it stand out from other terrestrial trees. Fan-shaped green leaves turn yellow in autumn, turning into gold.

But gold brings a lot of grief to people, and healing preparations are made from the leaves of the tree that help effective blood circulation and strengthen blood vessels.

Ferns

Ferns is another plant that witnesses the presence of legendary dinosaurs on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago. Although dinosaurs became extinct a long time ago, today they have become popular characters in children's cartoons, as well as adventure-nostalgic films for teenagers, which adults also watch with interest. In these films, there are certainly huge ferns, which, although they have become smaller these days, are ubiquitous in nature, choosing wet shaded places.

Despite the splendor of the fern bushes, we can say that this is a plant devoid of leaves. Rather, not devoid of, and never able to acquire normal leaves for hundreds of millions of years, like other deciduous plants.

What at first glance looks like a fern leaf is not, by botanical criteria. These are just overgrown branches, moreover, not creating a spreading crown, but lying in the same plane. Botanists have even come up with a special name for such a "leaf" - flat branch (flat branch), which also has a more beautiful name - frond.

If the plant has no leaves, then there is no need to talk about flowers. Although many peoples have legends about a fern flower, which can make a person happy who managed to find it. However, the person who managed to find a fern flower has not yet been born, since a long life has not taught the plant to give flowers and seeds to the world. For millions of years, the fern has continued its presence on Earth, thanks to tiny spores developing on the back of the frond.