Write a story about a fruit. What are the fruits

So said my favorite teacher, who was first a test pilot, and then, after a plane crash, began to teach physics at a secondary school.
His irony is clear to me now. He, as an extremely disciplined person, did not tolerate carelessness in people, and treated “cosmopolitans and all kinds of Beatles” with contempt. However… Years have passed, and the topic of the relationship between the length of hair and the level of intelligence of their owner suddenly arose again in front of me.

Sometime in the mid-seventies, my mother asked what they teach us in natural history, and was extremely surprised to see a paragraph in my textbook about signs by which you can determine the next changes in the weather. It turns out that in the fifties, when my parents were schoolchildren, the teacher told them that the old people are all dark, they believe in all sorts of superstitions, such as “a black cat ran across the road” or “smoke from a chimney is a pillar - to be frost.”

At that time, it never even occurred to anyone that such phenomena as the color of the sun at sunset or low-flying swallows have nothing to do with superstition, but have completely scientifically based grounds. So maybe it's time to rethink other folk signs?

Quite a long time ago, I heard the story of one man who claimed that as soon as he shaved his beard, his whole life immediately goes awry. As soon as the beard grows, he again begins to make progress in work, and the situation in the family returns to normal. This incident amused me, but for some time it did not get out of my head. I tried to figure out the reasons for this coincidence. In the end, I found a logical, in my opinion, explanation. It's all about his personal self-esteem, I decided. It’s just that without a beard, he feels insecure, which leaves an imprint on his demeanor, and, accordingly, on the attitude of those around him. Decided, calmed down, and forgot.

This story surfaced in my memory many years later, when I decided not to shave during the holidays, and let go of a dandy beard. He returned to the service in a new image, rested, and with tripled energy got down to business. Everything was on a great upswing, when suddenly there was a sudden stop, and a sharp fall.

Six months later, the black streak passed, I put things in order, and harmony returned to the family. I wanted it to last as long as possible, but who will be guided by my desires! After some short period of time, I lost my job altogether.

For a whole summer he wandered with his head bowed in search of himself. When the beard grew back, I was offered a very Good work, and even in a high position! This is where I first thought. It turned out that the peaks of failures fell precisely on those days when I decided to shave off my facial hair and become like everyone else, a decent person, not old yet. Then he stopped shaving, only trimmed his beard and mustache manicure scissors spouses. Several years have passed, I have already forgotten why I go with a beard, and I decided to change my image, to look a little younger.

In less than two days, my life went downhill again. This time, the fall was so hard that he could barely pick up the bones.
Now, I finally put everything on the shelves, realized it, and told my wife about my guess. Guess what she said to me? So imagine, but I don’t want to repeat at all.

The second time I returned to this conversation was when I was again bearded, and in doing so I got a great job, which I still do to this day. My wife tried to ridicule me, but nevertheless agreed that indeed, by a strange coincidence, I was losing my job for the second time in front of her eyes, and I find a good job, being bearded.

They say: - "Learn from mistakes"! How long can you tempt fate? She has already hit me so many times (not twice, as my wife noticed, but much more) with my face on the asphalt, and she kept crying from my stupidity that I can’t read such obvious signs.
All this, of course, is interesting, but what does this have to do with the structure of the universe?

I claim the most direct. “There are no accidents in this world. And every step leaves its mark. And there is no miracle, and coincidences are extremely rare, ”Andrey Makarevich once sang, being a shaggy brunette. Half-bald and gray-haired, he is unable to find a rhyme for the word "relish", by the way.

Everything is interconnected. If the connection between the phenomena has not been revealed, then this means that we have not yet realized what exactly can act as a link. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist at all!

Until people understood how air temperature and Atmosphere pressure, a sign about smoke from chimney considered prejudice and obscurantism. And how could the medieval Konovalov interpret radiation sickness, for example, if they knew nothing about radiation?

Now I can begin to express my thoughts about the connection between the length of a person's hair and his own destiny? Thank you for your generosity!

See for yourself. Here is the general known fact: All wise men, magicians, priests and people with a similar occupation, mostly long-haired and bearded. Do you agree? Just do not laugh, but I think that fashion has nothing to do with it.

Remember another well-known fact: women have a disproportionately more subtle intuition and the gift of foresight than men. No objections? But notice that in this case there is a coincidence. Women tend to have long hair!

Now remember about the fabulous and not quite magicians, sorcerers and wizards, how many are bald among them? Even those bald ones always appear before the mind's eye as bearded men. Pushkin wrote in vain that the strength of Chernomor was contained in a beard? And when a guy from Russia (Rus Land - Ruslan) deprived the Karla of his beard, he could no longer conjure. But these are fairy tales, in reality there are completely reliable scientific studies.

Here is a fact from the history of the recent past:
During the Vietnam War, special forces from the War Department sent secret agents to American Indian reservations to search for talented Scouts, tough young men with the skills to move silently across rough terrain. They were specifically looking for men with outstanding, almost supernatural, tracking abilities. It was noted that these carefully selected people were real experts in the field of tracking and survival.

To recruit new recruits, the usual lure and well-tried insinuating phrases were used, thus, some Indian hunters got into the military service. However, after they were recruited, something amazing happened. The talents and abilities that they possessed on the reservation mysteriously disappeared, and recruit after recruit suffered a complete failure, behaving on a combat mission not at all as expected of them.

The search for the cause of the failures led the government to conduct costly testing of these recruits, and this is what was found.
When asked about failure, the senior recruits unanimously answered that when they were cut in a military style, they could no longer "feel" the enemy, could no longer access the "sixth sense". They could no longer rely on their "intuition", could not "read" secret signs as well as before, and could not access subtle psychic information.

So the research institute recruited more Indian hunters, allowed them to keep their hair long, and ran tests in various fields. They then paired the men who scored the same on all tests. They left one of the men in the couple with long hair, and the other was given a short military haircut. Then the two were tested again. Time after time, men with long hair showed high results. Time after time men short hair did not withstand the tests in which they previously showed high results.

Here are examples of typical tests:
The recruit sleeps in the forest. An armed "enemy" approaches the sleeper. Men with long hair woke up from a sense of great danger and left long before the appearance of the enemy, long before any sounds were heard indicating the approach of the enemy.

The Americans came to the conclusion that long-haired men felt the approach and intuitively felt that the enemy would make a physical attack. They trusted their "sixth sense" and remained motionless, pretending to be asleep. Then they quickly grabbed the attacker and "killed" him as soon as the "enemy" got close enough to attack.

The same recruit, after passing this and other tests, had a short military haircut, and he consistently failed many tests that he had previously successfully passed.

That's how entertaining, but you crumpled ... Now let me remind you once again that there are no accidents in this world. NATURE has not given man anything superfluous except cowardice and greed. It has now been precisely established that the appendix also has its purpose in the body and tonsils. But just recently they were removed like garbage! Hair, apparently, is also not a useless part of the body. This is a continuation nervous system, it would be quite correct to call them like this - nerves on the surface of the body, a kind of highly developed "antennae" or "antennas" that transmit and receive a huge amount of important information.

Human hair, including male facial hair, not only directly supplies the brain with information, hair also radiates energy, electromagnetic energy radiates from the brain into the environment. This was established using the Kirlian effect (photofixation of the aura), when a person was photographed first with long hair, and then after a haircut. When hair is cut, receiving and sending signals to the environment is significantly more difficult. The result of this is helplessness.

Unexpectedly for myself, I came across a woman on the net who came to similar conclusions regarding the role of hair in human life. She publishes under a pseudonym gali , and this is what I read in one of her articles:

“In the daily hustle and bustle, few people think about why a person needs hair. But they are given to us not just for beauty. Hair performs several very important functions for a person.
1) Firstly, hair is a kind of "antenna" that receives cosmic energy.

2) Secondly, the hair acts as a battery. They store energy. The personal strength of a person. A person with long hair has better intuition. A woman with long hair carries a child WITHOUT toxicosis.
So, according to the apocryphal "Book of the Genesis of Heaven and Earth" Samson - an Old Testament hero who became famous for his exploits in the fight against enemies, wore long braids giving him heroic strength. When Samson broke his vow of celibacy given to the gods and fell in love with Delilah, he revealed a secret to her under the “drunk shop”: “If you cut my hair, then my strength will recede from me.” The insidious lover waited until the man fell asleep and cut off seven braids from his head. Samson immediately weakened, and the enemies took advantage of this - they blinded him and forced him to work at the mill. But when Samson's hair grew back, the strength returned to him, and he destroyed the building where the enemies were.

3) Thirdly, hair keeps the memory of a person. I remember the story of my friend. She studied perfectly well, an athlete from the Komsomol, a braid to the waist. And then she managed to make a fashionable haircut just before the exams. And what do you think? She failed her exams. She just could not remember anything from what she knew yesterday at five. She cut off her memory. Therefore, often a person who has experienced a very great grief is advised to get a haircut. And for the same reason, under no circumstances should you cut small children's hair. There is a belief that a child must be cut bald at the age of one. So I'll tell you: this is utter nonsense. A child actively learns the world, learns every second of his life, and you just take and cut off all his memory. He starts learning from the beginning. On the face of a lag in development. Why do girls tend to develop faster? Because they are usually not trimmed. It has been proven that children who have not had their hair cut grow much faster.
The commandment of God Svarog says: “Do not cut your fair hair, your hair is different, but with gray hair, for you will not comprehend the Wisdom of God and lose your health.”

Our ancestors were not fools, who attached such great importance to hair and beards. Remember at least the expression "beardless youth." It is possible that it is not so much about age, indicating the inexperience of someone who does not have a mustache. Maybe the mustache plays a positive role in the development of intelligence in general.

A beard was a symbol of maturity, masculinity and independence of a man. The beard was not only a male property, it was a symbolic confirmation of belonging to the God Family, that is, the one who wore the Beard was a descendant of the Ancient Heavenly Gods. Therefore, the Slavs and Aryans preserved the statement: “Our Gods are our Fathers, and we are their children, and we will be worthy of the Glory of our Gods, and we will do many good deeds, but for the glory of our Clans, three times more than Vlas in our Brad” . In ancient times, damaging a man's beard or forcibly cutting it off was considered the gravest crime against one's ancient Family of the Great Race and an insult to the Heavenly Gods who patronize this Family.

Insulting the heavenly gods was not forgiven to anyone, because of this, many wars occurred in the past, and the singed beard of the ambassador in the old days was considered a declaration of the beginning of the war.
From ancient times, mature beardless men were called woman-faced, they tried not to conclude military and other agreements with them, because it was believed that woman-faced men lead a female lifestyle (in modern terms, they are people of the opposite sexual orientation. This is confirmed by various historical sources, telling that before the reform of Peter 1, when it was announced “to shave their beards and wear a German dress”, it was Europeans with non-traditional sexual orientation who surrounded Peter I who were beardless).

It is known that Peter did not grow a beard, and on this occasion he was very complex. The solution was found - to deprive everyone else of the beard.
LONG HAIR for our ancestors - WISDOM.
Have you ever wondered why in the army they HAVE SHAVED baldly, why everyone says that children under one year old SHOULD CUT their first hair, why in churches women are OBLIGED TO PUT ON A HANDKERCHIEF on their heads? And after all, why did the Indians scalp?

By the way, children, after all, from birth are open to information that adults cannot perceive. The first year of a child's life is very important. CUTTING THE HAIR, you take away all the information collected by the child, all the memory for the year. And the Indians believed that by cutting off the scalp with HAIR from the enemy, the warrior closes access to the possibility of reincarnation of the enemy. That is, killing him not only in this incarnation, but also in the next, death for centuries.

Let me remind you that “cosmos” and “cosmos” are words with the same root. "Hair", may well be a derivative word on behalf of the wise Veles (Volos). WEALTH OF THE KIND - a beard.
In this light, the custom of shaving hair, leaving a crest at the top of the head, seems curious. Zaporozhye Cossacks, and warriors of some Asian peoples. I think this is just the case that is now being explained by "One convolution, and that one from the cap." Perhaps, in this way, the hairstyle contributed to the creation of a high military spirit, in the absence of other temptations and aspirations.

Since we “read the first letter”, realizing that a hairstyle can tell a lot about its “carrier”, then we need to try to read other letters of the rebus. I'll take a chance:
1) Crest: Makes a man a reckless, dashing, brave soldier.

2) Under the "pot": A typical sycophantic, sycophantic portrait. This is how Catholic monks and peasants were sheared.

3) All kinds of neat business haircuts: Such proudly, for some reason, call themselves "office plankton." I would call them "office rat". This is a breed of clerks - slaves who do not even realize that they are garbage, in fact. The owner keeps them in such bondage that one can only sympathize. The same applies to the military. Inevitable conclusion: A shaved face and a short haircut are a tool for submission and control.

4) Baldheads: Only one thing comes to mind. They are stubborn as donkeys. This has both positive and negative points.

5) Hairy: This is the type of freethinkers. Usually creative people, thinking outside the box, with developed intuition and talented people in many areas. Try to say it's not.

Summarizing all of the above, we can conclude that in fact the subject for study really exists. I would even say that it is visually more real than electricity or vitamins. In addition, not only the presence or absence, but also the length of the hair matters, but also their color and structure!

Have you ever heard of such a form of energy as EPS? Its discoverer is considered to be the Soviet entomologist V.S. Grebennikov, who gave it the name "Effect of cavity structures" (CSE).

In short, let me explain, it turns out that all cellular, cellular, etc. objects, including bread, foam rubber, sponge, honeycomb, etc., have the ability to radiate very weak energy, which can be detected by devices, but which is still considered completely unexplored. Most people can feel it as warmth by placing their hand over a piece of bread, for example, and feeling the warmth emanating from it. Foam in the bathroom also very often gives enough high strength radiation sufficient to provide beneficial influence per person. Thinking? Do you understand now why some objects, unconsciously, we like so much?

Now look at a human hair taken with a microscope.

Now let's increase...

Is it necessary to explain that we also see the same cavity structures that are capable of radiating Grebennikov's energy? And obviously, the thicker and longer hair, the greater the intensity of radiation they possess. The only question is which hair radiates beneficial and which destructive energy.

Now the last question for today. How can hair color affect its owner and others?
Jokes about blondes have already set the teeth on edge, and laughing at the stupidity of natural, I emphasize: NATURAL blondes have already become indecent.

However, having discarded the conventions, and taking a sober look at things, let's call them by their proper names. No. I'm not saying blondes are stupid. Rather the opposite. It's just that their behavior pattern is radically different from others. At first glance, they have the presence of a complete lack of logic, with an unusually developed intuition. But this is most likely not the case. Forgive me, their logic does not fit in with the generally accepted one, and this does not mean at all that it is worse. She's just different. OTHER, here's the thing.

Now imagine mentally a natural brunette. What do you see? Most likely, the concepts of “treachery”, “treason”, “witchcraft”, “enchantment”, “witch”, etc. immediately flash in the mind.

So hair color also leaves an imprint on a person's personality? It is appropriate to recall the expression "bright head". It can also be taken literally, and it will not be too far from the truth. Light-colored hair probably has the appropriate energy.

Of course, it is reasonable to say what exactly inner world dictates to a person what kind of “put on” appearance. There are no arguments against this, but ... Let's return to the experiments of the American intelligence services during the Vietnam War! Doubts about the obviousness of a skeptical attitude to the issue immediately appear, and, in my opinion, it is very fair. Communication is likely two-way.

It is even more important for everyone to understand this. Especially for women who prefer perms and hair coloring. Perhaps this is similar to trying to connect the plug of an iron to a water pipe. You can't break the creator's program. He laid, for example, that on September 19 at 14:28 at the corner of Lenin and Gagarin, the blonde Sveta would meet her love for life. Here the creator sends the prince on a pink horse at the appointed time to the blonde, he galloped a hundred miles, and there he sees a red-haired bitch. Khryas spear on the head, and went to another city, where there are streets of Lenin and Gagarin.
Primitively brought, but as I could already. Well? Will you continue to paint and shave?

On our planet there is a huge number of all kinds of plants, seeing which one can only be surprised at how nature could come up with something like this. An incredible number of species and subspecies of plants, many of which amaze with their qualities - from survival and adaptability, to colors and sizes. In this ranking of the most unusual plants we will show the full scope of natural creativity.

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Romanesco is one of the cultivars of cabbage, belonging to the same varietal group as cauliflower. According to some reports, it is a hybrid of cauliflower and broccoli. This type of cabbage has long been grown in the vicinity of Rome. According to some reports, it was first mentioned in historical documents in Italy in the sixteenth century. The vegetable appeared on international markets in the 90s of the XX century. Compared to cauliflower and broccoli, Romanesco is more delicate in texture and has a milder creamy nutty flavor without a bitter note.

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Euphorbia obesum is a perennial succulent plant in the Euphorbiaceae family that resembles a stone or a green-brown soccer ball in appearance, without spines or leaves, but sometimes forms "branches" or suckers in strange-looking sets of spheres. It can grow up to 20-30 cm in height and up to 9-10 cm in diameter. Euphorbia obese is a bisexual plant, it has male flowers on one plant, and females on another. For fruit set, cross-pollination is necessary, which is usually performed.

The fruit looks like a slightly triangular three-nut, up to 7 mm in diameter, containing one seed in each nest. When ripe, it explodes and scatters small, round, speckled-gray seeds 2 mm in diameter, the pedicels fall off after seeding. in full sun or partial shade. Plants are very well hidden among the stones, their color blends with environment so good that sometimes it's hard to see them.

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Tacca is a plant of the Tacca family, growing in a wide variety of environmental conditions and numbering 10 species. They settle in open and heavily shaded areas, in savannas, in thickets of bushes and in rain forests. Young parts of plants, as a rule, are pubescent with tiny hairs that disappear as they grow older. Plant sizes are usually small, from 40 to 100 centimeters, but some species sometimes reach a height of 3 meters. While takka is getting more and more wide use how indoor plant, it should be borne in mind that it is not easy to successfully maintain tacca in rooms due to the special demands of the plant on the conditions of detention. The Tacca family is represented by one genus Tacca, numbering about 10 plant species.

- Takka pinnatifida grows in tropical Asia, Australia, and in the tropics of Africa. Leaves up to 40-60 cm wide, from 70 cm long to 3 meters long. A flower with two bedspreads, large, reaching 20 cm wide, the color covered is light green.

- Tacca Chantrier grows in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia. evergreen tropical, herbaceous plant reaching 90-120 cm in height. The flowers are edged with maroon, almost black, wing-span-like bracts. bat or butterflies with long, threadlike antennae.

- Whole-leaved takka grows in India. The leaves are wide, glossy, up to 35 cm wide, up to 70 cm long. A flower with two bedspreads, large, up to 20 cm wide, the color is white, white tone scattered purple strokes. The flowers are black, purple or dark purple, located under the bedspreads.

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Venus flytrap - view carnivorous plants from the monotypic genus Dionea of the Rosyankovye family. It is a small herbaceous plant with a rosette of 4-7 leaves that grow from a short underground stem. Leaves are three to seven centimeters in size, depending on the time of year, long trap leaves usually form after flowering. Feeds on insects and spiders. Grows in damp temperate climate on the Atlantic coast of the USA. It is a species cultivated in ornamental horticulture. Can be grown as a houseplant. Grows in soils with a lack of nitrogen, such as swamps. Lack of nitrogen is the reason for the appearance of traps: insects serve as a source of nitrogen necessary for protein synthesis. The Venus flytrap belongs to a small group of plants capable of fast movements.

After the prey is trapped and the edges of the sheets close, forming a "stomach" in which the digestion process takes place. Digestion is catalyzed by enzymes that are secreted by glands in the lobes. Digestion takes approximately 10 days, after which only an empty chitinous shell remains of the prey. After that, the trap opens and is ready to capture new prey. During the life of the trap, an average of three insects fall into it.

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The dragon tree is a plant of the genus Dracaena, which grows in the tropics and subtropics of Africa and on the islands. South-East Asia. Grown as ornamental plant. An old Indian legend tells that a long time ago in the Arabian Sea on the island of Socotra, there lived a bloodthirsty dragon who attacked elephants and drank their blood. But one day, one old and strong elephant fell on the dragon and crushed it. Their blood mixed and wetted the ground around. At this place, trees have grown, called dracaena, which means “female dragon”. The indigenous population of the Canary Islands considered the tree sacred, and its resin was used in medicinal purposes. The resin was found in prehistoric burial caves and was used for embalming at that time.

On its thick branches grow bunches of very sharp leaves. Thick branched trunk up to 20 meters high, diameter at the base up to 4 m, has a secondary growth in thickness. Each branch of branching ends with a dense bunch of densely arranged grayish-green, leathery, linear-xiphoid leaves 45-60 centimeters long and 2-4 centimeters wide in the middle of the plate, somewhat tapering towards the base and pointed towards the apex, with prominent veins. The flowers are large, bisexual, with a corolla-shaped dividing perianth, in bunches of 4-8 pieces. Some trees live up to 7-9 thousand years.

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The genus Gidnora includes 5 species growing in the tropical regions of Africa, Arabia and Madagascar, it is not very common, so just walking in the desert, you will not find it. This plant is more like a mushroom until it unusual flower will not open. In fact, the flower is named after the hydnor mushroom, which means mushroom in Greek. Hydnoraceae flowers are rather large, solitary, almost sessile, bisexual, petalless. And what we usually see on the surface of the soil is what we call a flower.

These features of color and structure, as well as the putrid smell of flowers, serve to attract beetles that feed on carrion. Beetles, climbing into flowers, crawl into them, especially in their lower part, where the reproductive organs are located, contributing to their pollination. Often, female beetles not only find food in flowers, but also lay eggs there.

The inhabitants of Africa - willingly use the fruits of hydnora for food, like some animals. In Madagascar, the hydnora fruit is considered one of the best local fruits. Thus, the peddlers of hydnora seeds are the most and humans. In Madagascar, the flowers and roots of Hydnora are used by locals to treat heart disease.

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Baobab is a species of trees from the genus Adansonia of the Malvaceae family, characteristic of the dry savannahs of tropical Africa. The lifespan of baobabs is controversial - they do not have growth rings, which can be used to reliably calculate age. Radiocarbon dating has shown more than 5,500 years for a tree 4.5 meters in diameter, although baobabs are more conservatively estimated to live for about 1,000 years.

In winter and during the dry period, the tree begins to consume moisture reserves, decreasing in volume, sheds foliage. Baobab blossoms from October to December. Baobab flowers are large - up to 20 cm in diameter, white with five petals and purple stamens, on hanging pedicels. They open in the late afternoon and live only one night, attracting the scent of bats that pollinate them. In the morning, the flowers wither, acquiring an unpleasant putrefactive odor, and fall off.

Next, oblong edible fruits develop, which resemble cucumbers or melons, covered with a thick, hairy peel. Inside the fruits are filled with sour mealy pulp with black seeds. The baobab dies in a peculiar way: it seems to crumble and gradually settle, leaving behind only a pile of fiber. However, baobabs are extremely tenacious. They quickly restore the stripped bark; continue to bloom and bear fruit. A cut down or fallen tree is able to take on new roots.

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Victoria amazonica is a large herbaceous tropical plant of the Water Lily family, the largest water lily in the world and one of the most popular greenhouse plants in the world. Victoria amazonica was named after Queen Victoria of England. Victoria Amazonian is common in the Amazon in Brazil and Bolivia, it is also found in the rivers of Guyana that flow into the Caribbean Sea.

Huge water lily leaves reach 2.5 meters and, with a uniformly distributed load, can withstand weight up to 50 kilograms. The tuberous rhizome is usually deeply recessed into the muddy bottom. The upper surface is green with a waxy layer that repels excess water and also has small holes to remove water. Bottom part purple-red with a mesh of ribs dotted with spikes to protect against herbivorous fish, air bubbles accumulate between the ribs to help the leaf swim. In one season, each tuber can produce up to 50 leaves, which, growing, cover a large surface of the reservoir, blocking sunlight and thereby limiting the growth of other plants.

Victoria Amazonian flowers are under water and bloom only once a year for 2-3 days. Flowers bloom only at night, and with the onset of dawn they fall under water. During flowering, flowers placed above the water, in the open state, have a diameter of 20-30 centimeters. On the first day, the color of the petals is white, on the second they are pinkish, on the third they turn purple or dark crimson. In the wild, the plant can live up to 5 years.

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Sequoia is a monotypic genus of woody plants of the Cypress family. It grows on the Pacific coast of North America. Individual specimens of sequoia reach a height of more than 110 meters - these are the tallest trees on Earth. The maximum age is more than three and a half thousand years. This tree is better known as the "mahogany", while plants of the related species sequoiadendron are known as "giant sequoias".

Their diameter at the level of the human chest is about 10 meters. The largest tree in the world "General Sherman". Its height is 83.8 meters. In 2002, the volume of wood was 1487 m³. It is believed that he is 2300-2700 years old. The tallest tree in the world is Hyperion, its height is 115 meters.

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Nepenthes is the only genus of plants of the monotypic Nepentaceae family, which includes about 120 species. Most species grow in tropical Asia, especially on the island of Kalimantan. Named after the herb of oblivion from ancient Greek mythology - nepenfa. Species of the genus are mostly shrub or semi-shrub lianas growing in humid habitats. Their long thin herbaceous or slightly lignified stems climb the trunks and large branches of neighboring trees to tens of meters in height, carrying their narrow terminal racemose or paniculate inflorescences to sunlight.

In different types of Nepenthes, jugs differ in size, shape and color. Their length varies from 2.5 to 30 centimeters, and in some species it can reach up to 50 cm. Most often, the jugs are painted in bright colors: red, matte white with a spotted pattern, or light green with spots. The flowers are small and inconspicuous, actinomorphic and petalless, with four imbricate sepals. The fruit is in the form of a leathery box, divided by internal partitions into separate chambers, in each of which seeds with a fleshy endosperm and a straight cylindrical small embryo are attached to the column.

It is curious that large nepenthes, in addition to eating insects, also use the droppings of tupaya animals, which climb onto the plant like on a toilet bowl to feast on sweet nectar. In this way, the plant forms a symbiotic relationship with the animal, using its droppings as fertilizer.

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This mushroom, belonging to Agaricus mushrooms, looks like chewed chewing gum oozing blood and smelling of strawberries. However, you should not eat it, because it is one of the most poisonous mushrooms on earth, and even just licking it can be guaranteed to get serious poisoning. The mushroom gained fame in 1812, and then it was recognized as inedible. The surface of the fruit bodies is white, velvety, with small depressions, becoming beige or brown with age. On the surface of young specimens, drops of a poisonous blood-red liquid protrude through the pores. The word “tooth” in the title is not just that. The fungus has sharp formations along the edges that appear with age.

In addition to its external qualities, this mushroom has good antibacterial properties and contains chemical substances that thin the blood. It is possible that soon this mushroom will become a replacement for penicillin. main feature of this fungus is that it can feed on both soil juices and insects, which are lured by the red liquid of the fungus. The diameter of the cap of a bloody tooth is 5-10 centimeters, the length of the stem is 2-3 centimeters. The bloody tooth grows in the coniferous forests of Australia, Europe and North America.

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The top three among the most unusual plants in the world is closed by a large tropical plant of the genus Amorphophallus of the aroid family, discovered in 1878 in Sumatra. One of the most famous species of the genus, it has one of the largest inflorescences in the world. The aerial part of this plant is a short and thick stem, at the base there is a single large sheet, above are smaller ones. Leaf length up to 3 meters, and up to 1 meter in diameter. Petiole length 2-5 meters, thickness 10 cm. Matte green, with white transverse stripes. The underground part of the plant is a giant tuber weighing up to 50 kilograms.

The scent of the flower resembles a mixture of rotten eggs and rotten fish, and in appearance the flower resembles a decomposing piece of meat. It is this smell that attracts pollinating insects to the plant in the wild. Flowering continues for two weeks. Interestingly, the cob is heated up to 40 ° C. The tuber during this time is greatly depleted due to overspending nutrients. Therefore, he needs another rest period of up to 4 weeks in order to accumulate strength for leaf development. If there are few nutrients, then the tuber “sleeps” after flowering until next spring. The life expectancy of this plant is 40 years, but during this time it blooms only three or four times.

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Velvichia is amazing - a relic tree - is one species, one genus, one family, one order of the Velvichievs. Velvichia grows in southern Angola and Namibia. The plant is rarely found further than a hundred kilometers from the coast, this roughly corresponds to the limit reached by fogs, which are the main source of moisture for Welwitschia. Its appearance cannot be called grass, bush or tree. The scientific world learned about Velvichia in the 19th century.

From afar, it seems that Velvichia has many long leaves, but in fact there are only two of them, and they grow throughout its entire length. plant life, adding 8-15 centimeters per year. In scientific works, a giant was described with a leaf length of more than 6 meters and a width of about 2. And its life expectancy is so long that it is hard to believe. Although Velvichia is considered a tree, it does not have annual rings, as on tree trunks. Scientists have determined the age of the largest Welwitsch radiocarbon method- it turned out that some specimens are about 2000 years old!

Instead of a social plant life, Velvichia prefers a lonely existence, that is, it does not grow in a group. Velvichia flowers look like small cones, with only one seed in each female cone, and each seed is equipped with wide wings. As for pollination, the opinions of botanists differ here. Some believe that pollination is carried out by insects, while others are more inclined to the action of the wind. Velvichia is protected by the Namibian Conservation Act. The collection of its seeds is prohibited without special permission. The entire territory where Velvichia grows has been turned into a National Park.

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Since childhood, we know the taste of cherry jam. And we like it! After all, the cherry itself is juicy, tasty, and the jam from it is excellent. Cherry enjoys well-deserved popularity among gardeners in our country. It is grown both in the south and in the central regions of Russia, in the Urals and in Siberia. And everywhere she gives people fragrant, fabulous fruits of a cherry color familiar to everyone. Paying tribute to the merits of this wonderful plant, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov wrote his famous play The Cherry Orchard.

In Europe, cherry trees first appeared in Italy, where they were brought from Anatolia in 680. Then the cherry spread throughout the territories of Gaul and Germany. The first mention of cherry cultivation in Russia dates back to the 12th century.

cherry is woody plant from the Rosaceae family. There are more than one and a half hundred types of cherries in the wild, but only a few of them are used in horticulture. These are ordinary cherries, steppe cherries, felt cherries and some other varieties.

Cherry does not grow very high, its branches are scattered in different sides and tilted down. The leaves of the cherry are smooth, shiny, on top they have a dark green color and light green underneath. The cherry fruit grows on a long stem. At first it has a green color, and then, depending on the variety, it turns red, pink or yellow. The taste of a mature fruit is, also depending on the variety, sweet or sour.

Useful properties of cherries

Cherry fruits are biologically rich active substances. They act as anti-radiation, tonic and antihypertensive agents. Cherry fruits also contain glucose and fructose. Lots of cherries in fruits useful substances- carotene, vitamin C, folic acid and others, and it also contains iron and coumarins.

Cherry is a valuable and healthy horticultural crop.

And now we will tell you a fairy tale about cherries.

... Once upon a time there was a cherry. Slim, beautiful. Suddenly an evil man saw her and decided to break the cherry. She begged and prayed for him not to engage in evil deeds, but he would not listen... One bone fell into the ground, a good leaf covered it from the wind. The bone warmed up, smiled, and decided to give an escape. The sprouted shoot hid for a long time in a warm hole, and in the spring he took it and looked out. The sun threw him a ray, and he got stronger. And he began to grow, looking back at other plants. They grow, and he grows, they bend down from the rain, and he too. And so it grew. And it looks like a real cherry. After some time, small berries appeared on the cherry. And the children, seeing a new cherry tree, began to guard it. They liked to do good deeds, not evil ones.

Look at the pictures. Read the captions. Write a story about the fruit of a plant. Cherry fruit (drupe), Dandelion fruit (seed), tomato fruit (berry), pea fruit (bean), oak fruit (acorn).

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A lot of people make the mistake of calling a tomato a vegetable. Because it's a berry. The fruits of this plant appear in mid-August and until mid-September. The fruit of the tomato is used most often for food. Both raw and cooked. There is an interesting fact that in the 18th century tomatoes were considered poisonous. One guy decided to commit suicide and ate a tomato, hoping to die from the poison. But he didn't die. But he became the discoverer of Tomato.