Woodland Vegetation & Adaptations

 

Woodland Vegetation

Woodlands

WOODLANDS ARE PLACES with shady conditions under the trees. Spring flowers like bluebells and primroses, summer flower like foxgloves and rose bay willow herb, shrubs like brambles and hawthorn, as well in the woodlands. These is because these plants are saved from direct sunlight.

Woodland plants

These are just a few of the many wildflowers and other plant that grow on the woodland floor. All the flowers do not bloom together: Each plants blooms according to its own season, this keep the woodland floor colorful for many months of the year.

Primroses bloom in spring

Primroses, wood anemones, oxlips, daffodils, lesser celandine, bluebells, early purple orchids and dog's mercury and other flowers of the deciduous woodlands, flower in spring to get ample sunshine before the leaves grow thick on the trees. Thus, every spring, the woodland floor get a colorful carpet.

Dead trees

When big trees die and come crashing down through the branches, they create a clearing in the woods called a glade. Here sunlight can reach the woodland floor again, allowing all kind of plants to sprout anew, including flowers such as foxgloves and rose bay willow herb and all kind of fungi, such as fly agaric, which thrive on the rotting wood.

Plant bearing different flowers

Woodbine is a plant that two different flowers. In the spring, there is a big flower to attract the bees for pollination, and in summer, there is a smaller flower for making seeds.

Woodland plants-good for a kiss

Mistletoe, a parasitic plant white berries, clings to apple, hawthorn, poplar and willow trees, putting its root into them. As per a custom, many people hang up a twig of mistletoe to stand and kiss under it, at Christmas. The custom dates back to the druids, the white-robed priest an Ancient Britain around 2,000 years ago, why cut down mistletoe with a golden sickle to use in it their sacred rites.

Coppice

Since early days, trees in woodland areas need to be cut down for letting new straight shoots to grow. This is known as coppicing, and it ensures a steady supply of straight poles for fencing and making tools.

Are fruits seeds?

No they develop from the flower's ovary - and the hard pips inside are the seeds. Juicy fruits such as berries are called 'true fruits' because they are made from the flower's ovaries alone. Apples and pears are 'false' fruits because only the core is made from the overlies alone. Apples and pearls are 'false' fruits become only the core is made from the ovary. Plums and cherries are 'drupes' in which there are no pips, but the seed is held in a hard shell.

Adaptations

What makes tropical plant different?

THE CLIMATE IN THE TROPICS is warm most of the time, and there is ample moisture in the rainforests. This is the idea combination for plants growth. The forest are not only lush with greenery but also display a huge variety of plants. Some of the world's most spectacular and strange plants are found in the tropical rainforest. The climate in the tropics is warm most of the time, and there is Ample moisture in the rain forests. This is the idea combination for plant growth. The forest is not only lush with greenery but also display a hug verity of plants. Some of the world's most spectacular and strange plant are found in the tropical rainforest

The world's biggest flower

A single Rafflesia flower of southeast Asia measures s 1 m across and weigh 7 kg and more. The titan arum at 3 m height is ever bigger, but than it is not a single flower like Rafflesia. It is made of many small flowers.

Worlds worst smelling flower

The foulest smelling flower is the Rafflesia. Since it smells like rotting meat it is known as the stinking corpse lily. The strong and foul smell is said to attract the flies that help in pollination.

Rich rainforest

The rain forest contain over 40 % of the world's plant special and so are the world's lushest habitats. It is difficult to know how many different plant special exit there. But botanist have counted more than 180 species of trees alone, in one hectare of the forest in Malaysia.

Plant growing on trees

The rain forest are so dense that small plants have to wrap their roots around the branches of biggest trees to get sunlight. Such small plants called epiphytes. Bromeliads are a common example of epiphytes.

Name the strongest rope in the forest

The strongest rope is the liana. It is a vine or creeper that having down from rain forest trees. Monkeys and other forest animal used lianas to swing thought though trees. Actually, the vine is very long system whose roots are in the ground and the leaves are found above the trees.

World's largest leaves

The leave of raffia palms and the Amazonian bamboo palm are the world's largest leaves that grow up to 20 m.

Plant have their own water tanks

Some bromeliads grow high up on trees and their roots cannot reach water from the ground, instead, they grow a tight cluster of leaves which traps a pond of rain water.

Layers in a tropical forest

The top layers is the 'emergent' layer, a few isolated trees, towering above the rest, up to 60 m tall. Beneath them, 30-50 m above the ground, is the dense 'canopy' of leave and branches of big trees. In the gloom beneath is the 'under storey' where small trees and shrubs grow.

 

The rainforest is so rich in plant life because plant grow in the soil and on trees as bromeliads, orchids, ferns and mosses that act6ually grow in the trees and air-plants that get moisture from the air alone.

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