Pumpkin is a very unusual plant: within two months, its thin stem grows, spreading on the ground, as much as 40 meters! It holds huge fruits that can weigh 100 kilograms.

Green hunters

This is surprising, but there are insectivorous plants. Some of them grow in Europe in the swamps. These plants, using various tricks, such as smell, lure insects into their flowers or leaves, which in fact turn out to be traps-traps. Captured insect is digested with a special substance similar to gastric juice.

Huge plants can reach 100 meters in length and live for 2 thousand years, such as the giant sequoia that grows in America.

Mushrooms

A large number of different mushrooms grows in the forest. But these are not plants: they have no leaves, fruits, or seeds.

Plants - Impatiens

Some plants are very sensitive. If someone accidentally touches them, they stack all their leaves or petals, as if from fear. Such a touchy, for example, is mimosa.

Our planet is very many years old

But the plants were not always the same as they are now. Once upon a time they were arranged and looked different. They had no flowers and fruits, and they propagated in a very unusual way - not by seeds, but by spores. This is what the forest looked like long before humans appeared on Earth.