PLANT THAT WALKS.
To those who have made it a study, plant life teems with wonders. Take, for example, the Loranthus, a specie? of mistletoe. If this plant finds itself in a situation unfavourable to its growth, it will throw out a root by which it is enabled to move to another site the means of locomotion being a flattened disc that acts as a sort of foot. The moving proccss is repenteS until a satisfactory position for development has been found. A.nothev plant, the Clusia, lodges its seed in the branches of a tree, whence the roots grow downwards and strike in the soil. From these suspended roots branches (fj-ovv on 'all sides, until the tree by which thev :i ro supported becomc* literally suffocated.
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Northern Advocate, 11 July 1925, Page 11 (Supplement)
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126PLANT THAT WALKS. Northern Advocate, 11 July 1925, Page 11 (Supplement)
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