Unusual flowers bloom on sand like alien flowers

This flower blooming on sand is also called "sand food" , the reason for this name is because it looks like the dishes made from sand, above the tiny purple flowers, beautiful and delicate and strange.

The scientific name of this exotic sand flower is Pholisma sonorae , a rare and exotic flower belonging to the flowering flowering plants in North American deserts.

This flower is called Pholisma sonorae.

Sand flower Pholisma sonorae is also considered a perennial herb , growing from sand dunes with extremely long roots, reaching 2m down to the ground to absorb water and nutrients, the upper part of the bush grows above Flat spherical, there are also mushroom-like shapes in the image if the desert wind is strong enough to blow away the sandy masses surrounding the body of Pholisma sonorae.

During the beginning of spring, this round end of the rare sand flower Pholisma sonorae will grow tiny flowers, about 1 to 2cm in diameter, the white and purple color is very prominent.

Sand flower Pholisma sonorae is also considered a perennial herb.

As a heterotrophic plant, sandy Pholisma sonorae lacks chlorophyll to surround, so to survive, they have stretched out their hardy roots clinging to the roots of many desert plants to absorb nutrients. However, they are friendly flowers when they do not extract the nutrients of the host plant. Although there are cases of large Pholisma sonorae flowers, heavier than the host plants, the host plants are not wilted or dead.

Pholisma sonorae is heterotrophic.

Notably, the young plants Pholisma sonorae are able to find suitable host roots to live parasites even when the roots have penetrated deep into the sand layer by growing some new young roots, specializing in the task " Reconnaissance". When finding suitable host root, these reconnaissance roots will grow sucking, self-connect, absorb nutrients such as starches and amino acids synthesized by the host from photosynthesis.

This species maintains its species through the dispersing of seeds by wind.

This species maintains its species through the dispersing of seeds by wind, the wind blowing continuously through the rolling alcohol will sweep away the seeds mixed in the sand, helping them travel everywhere, underground or underground. Clinging to the body of some rodent species with living habits is deep excavation nesting under shrubs.

Pholisma sonorae is classified as a rare and precious plant because of its narrow living environment.

As an endemic plant, Pholisma sonorae can currently only be found in several locations such as Algodones Dunes, southeastern California, near Arizona, USA, and Sonora, Mexico. Pholisma sonorae is classified as a rare and precious plant because of its narrow living environment.