15 Surprising Plants Around The World

[jeevan]

Whether you are taking a small walk around the block or traveling to distant places abroad, nature can astonish you in its abilities and creations if you only know where to look. Sometimes nature even does things we didn’t know it could, either with the help of man or without our intervention. In the following 15 pictures, you’ll see what vegetation can do and how powerful the creative power of nature is, and you’ll certainly be amazed to discover some things you wouldn’t even believe really exist in reality.

1. The locals in Meghalaya, India, have, for several hundred years, raised several hundred bridges over riverbeds with only tree roots



2. The roots of this tree were shaped by the grooves between the curbstones



3. A water lily - a large Victoria, which children can actually sit on



4. Such symmetrical "mistakes" are rare in nature



5. Flowers on a cactus