Metamorphosis of plants

In the dense forest of Maine and Florida in the United States, there is an Indian aracea, all four seasons are green, in 15-20 years of growth always change sex, from male plants to female ones, then from transgenic plants male. Aracea Indian plants are moderately large with only 1 leaf, blooming male flowers (Photo: ac-lyon)

Most plants are male and female, both male and female, or in the same flower, there are both male and female.

In the 20s of the twentieth century it was discovered in the Indian aracea tree, but no one discovered its mystery. Recently, some American botanists found that aracea India is moderately large with only 1 leaf, blooming male flowers. A little bigger with 2 leaves, blooming female.When young, no flowers, neutral, can later be transformed into male plants, or female trees. Further observations show that when it grows well , it usually turns into female plants, whereas the trees grow weak and become male . So biologists think it is a way to save energy, self-regulate the body's physiology.

Plants as well as animals, female plants need a lot of energy to proliferate. The aracea seeds are very large, the female plants give the seeds a lot of energy compared to the male ones. If every year gives seeds, nutrition will not be enough to compensate, getting weaker and weaker, maybe even die if malnourished. Therefore, it is necessary to accumulate nutrients for new plants to turn into female plants to give birth. After seeding, the tree weakens to become a male plant to save energy and nutrition. Taking a year of resting in the balm, once it has recovered, it becomes a female tree to produce the results.

Notably, aracea India not only relies on metamorphosis to transmit life, but also due to metamorphosis to adapt to bad environments. When the aracea tree is lost to the leaves of a plant or is covered by a big tree, it also turns into a male plant. When there are new favorable conditions turn into female trees to pass on life.

Aracea tree when it has enough energy and nutrients into a female tree (Photo: aphotoflora)