Decorative plant – Beautiful Calibrachoa

Beautiful Calibrachoa

The impressive cascade of small bells of different colors in hanging baskets – that’s the beauty of Colorful Calibrachoa. This basket plant used for landscaping balconies, terraces, southern windows and grown as garden plants. And genus of Calibrachoa belongs to the family of Solanaceae. Also, it is a perennial plant. Most plants of this kind are similar to the varieties of petunias, but they are not petunias. Despite the fact that some botanical textbooks call this plant petunia. However, in 1990 scientists proved that Calibrachoa differs from petunia in DNA structure. In particular, Petunias have 14 chromosomes, while Calibrachoa has 18. Undoubtedly, it is a completely different plant, although related to each other. By the way, Calibrachoa got its name after Mexican botanist Antonio de la Cal y Bracho, who lived in a 19th-century.
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Adorable Sea Sheep, or Leaf Sheep – Sea Slug Costasiella Kuroshimae

Adorable Sea Sheep
Have a look at this interesting sea dweller – Slug Costasiella Kuroshimae, reminiscent of a cartoon sheep, or even an anime cow, according to opinions of some people. The mysterious sea creature is found in South East Asia at a depth of 10 meters. It feeds on marine plants. The length of tiny creature is 1 cm, but it can grow up to 5mm. Costasiella kuroshimae is a species of sacoglossan sea slug, a shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Costasiellidae. The type locality is Japanese Kuroshima, Taketomi, Okinawa, as well as near Indonesia and the Philippines Islands. The Leaf sheep is one of the rare animals that can perform photosynthesis. When they eat algae, they suck out the chloroplasts and incorporate them into their own bodies in a process called kleptoplasty. This process, which otherwise can only be performed by single-celled organisms, essentially makes them solar-powered slugs.
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Rarest flowers. Cosmos Atrosanguineus – a flower that smells like chocolate

Many would agree that flowers – the easiest and most beautiful way to convey feelings and emotions, to cheer up yourself and your family. Flowers bring happiness, relieve stress, reduce pain, and help curb the anger. Here you can find the rarest flowers in the world. These beautiful flowers are not sold in stores, but their number has 270,000 species. Caring for such plants requires special skills and knowledge. Rare flowers, tend to be very expensive or impossible to obtain.
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Kelimutu volcano on the island of Flores rarely visited by tourists

Kelimutu volcano – a mystical place tucked away on the island of Flores, in the ocean. It is rarely visited by tourists – because of the remoteness and poor infrastructure. After the death of volcanoes remain Scary and beautiful craters. Over time, they become overgrown, sometimes filled with sea or rain water, forming ponds and even lakes. Ancient craters of extinct volcanoes had mystical character. They were often equated with death and fear, with the gates to the underworld.
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Black Orchid beautiful dream

Black Orchid beautiful dream
The Black Orchid is a beautiful dream, because the black pigment does not exist, and absolutely black colors are not found in nature. But there are flowers of dark shades, they look almost black. From this perspective, The Black Orchid flower exists, with even a different species, such as Phalaenopsis Phalaenopsis Black Butterfly ‘Orchids’. Its flowers have a dark burgundy color that resemble exotic moths, for which the plant got its name. The Black Orchid exists only in the imagination of the people, though experts has attempted to create a special hybrid for many centuries. Botanists from California put an end to this quest by growing the black flower that has been recognized as the only plant that can be called the black orchid. The Black Orchid flowers with an amazing vanilla scent has become the embodiment and symbol of beauty and elegance.
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Beautiful Cranberry Sea in British Columbia, Canada

In British Columbia, where Canadian Maple autumn begins, on the surface of the flooded plantations floats large-fruited cranberry, forming Beautiful Cranberry Sea of bizarre look. The bright red sea of floating cranberries signals the start of the six week long cranberry harvest season. Among red cranberry seas roam in water, up to their waists, dastar-turbaned Sikh Canadians. This makes the monitoring of gathering the berries process even more surprising (Canada – the main center of non-Indian Sikh diaspora). The peculiarity of large-fruited cranberry, which is considered a national treasure of Canada (and the USA), is that its fruits contain air chambers, allowing the berries float on the surface.
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The Great Banyan – a tree with the world’s largest area of ​​the crown. Botanic Garden in Howrah, India

Symbol of India The Great Banyan – a tree with the world’s largest area of ​​the crown. Located in Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden in Howrah, near Kolkata, India. The Great Banyan, or as it is called, tree-forest, has not one, but thousands of trunks. Great Banyan Ficus is a Bengali, small and inedible fruit when ripe red. In the ancient times banyan tree was called the world tree, it is a symbol of human consciousness. It is quite possible that this tree grew in the Garden of Eden. And it was called the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Tree represents a constantly updated and resurgent world, an inexhaustible source of life. It appears from the seed, grows, creates its own world, its life. It is a symbol of order and harmony as opposed to Chaos.
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