Not were treated 40 Years, This plant still growing

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Cranleigh - The gardener named David Latimer, managed to create an amazing experiment. He made a small garden is placed in the bottle, after 40 years turned out the plant it thrives despite never watered.

David, want to test a theory where a plant can survive in the environment without being given water. He put four seeds in the bottle it. Three of the four seeds that has been died, but the seeds of the plant commonly called Spiderworts or Tradescantia is continuing to grow despite this plant  not were treated.

"I started planting in 1960. I got this idea because I wanted to see whether the plant can survive in an isolated environment," said David. As quoted from the Mirror.

"This is an experiment to see how long the plants it will survive. Tradescantia plants continue to grow until it fills the bottle. Whereas I just flush twice at the beginning of 1970, "added retired this electric engineer.

To survive, the plant it absorb solar energy from sunlight, and water resulting from the carbon dioxide moisture and nutrients produced from leaves that have been rotted. This process could also produce oxygen.

Source:  Mirror

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Carrion Flowers bloom in the Botanical Gardens Australia

Residents of Australia queue see carrion flower (Photo: AAP)

MELBOURNE - The clerk at the Botanical Gardens in the city of Melbourne, Australia is currently being merry. Because the corpse flower planted in the park, is currently in bloom.

Giant flower that has a height of about 180 cm is rumored will only bloom for two days before finally wilting. "We are very excited by this event," says the nurse's corpse flower, David Robbins, was quoted as saying by AAP on Wednesday (12/26/2012).

A blooming corpse flower is happening in the first botanical garden Melbourne. Reportedly corpse flower blooms events are very rare in Australia. Corpse flower was brought to Australia from the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, the native habitat.

Carrion flower will release a very foul odor when he was in bloom. Robbins states, peak bloom events occur carcass right on Christmas day yesterday.

Robbins estimates that there will be tens of thousands of people who will be coming to Melbourne Botanical Gardens to see the corpse flower blooms directly. Currently citizens of Australia are enjoying the Christmas holiday tradition that many families go for a walk.

Carrion flower itself known many kinds. Carrion flower is blooming in Australia today is the kind of Titan Arum flower. One type of the other famous corpse flower is Raflesia Arnoldi, who also came from the island of Sumatra.

Source:  AAP 

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Pineapple Most Expensive in the UK, Planted using horse manure

Pineapple expensive in the UK (Photo: SWNS)

LONDON - A group of park workers in the UK using horse manure as fertilizer for their pineapple plant. The use of manure as fertilizer is often claimed to be the method used in the past.

Way a unique pineapple planting was done in the Garden of Lost Gardens of Heligan in the Cronwall, England. Garden party claiming the use of horse shit to make sense of the pineapple produced a delicious and very sweet.

"We use about 90 tons of horse manure for our pineapple plant. We use only good quality manure which is very difficult to obtain, "said park spokesman, James Stephens, told Metro on Monday (24/12/2012).

Horse manure is used because it is removing the heat to maintain the temperature of the pineapple plant to keep warm. The plant itself is called the pineapple takes up to two years to mature fruit.

Stephens said, if the pineapple was sold then the price of the fruit will reach 1200 pounds. The high price is due to funds expended park officials to get horse manure is not little.

Even so the park stated, pineapple-pineapple it that they will not sell to the public. Pineapples will only share with them their own officers.

"Our officers are painstaking care pineapple so that they can grow well. They are entitled to first taste the pineapple fruit, "said Stephens.

Source:  Metro

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