Sunday, September 14, 2014

Plants Sweats!

Did you know that-----

       Mangrove plants along costal region have special salt gland enable them sweat?


Mangroves are shrubs that grow in saline costal sediment in the tropic and subtropics (Jamaica, Cambodia, Brazil, and The Philippines). Their seeds are unlike most plants who germinate in soil. Mangroves seeds have the ability to float on water and disperse to the most favourable habitat. A ready to go seedling grows out from the seed that enables them to travel, once it is ready to root, the seedling flit vertical and lodge in the mud and root. 

What's amazing it that, mangrove lives in the ocean and they are capable of purifying the salt water they absorbed from the root into something they could "drink"(utilize). They have two elaborate salt glands at their leaf base, once water is transported to the leaves through osmosis, the salt glands actively transport salts out of the cell and maintain the salt balance in the cell. 

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