Sokotra estas izolita insulo en la sudo de Jemeno kaj estas konata pro sia diversa plantvivo. Estas finite 350 endemiaj plantospecioj trovitaj sur la insulo.
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It is the most isolated landmass on Earth, located almost 1,000 kilometers from any other land. It’s an exotic mix of different plant and animal life, including plants that don’t exist anywhere else on earth.
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The entire ecosystem of this island is unique because it was never colonized and has no human activity at all.
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What island has the most unusual plant life?
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There are many places in the world with interesting plant life, but we’re going to focus on one of them. Socotra is an island off the coast of Yemen that sits at a latitude close to 4 degrees south. This means that for its closest neighbors, Socotra is closer to the equator than it is to Europe.
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On Socotra, you’ll find no trees or shrubs and no soil either, just a few low growing bushes and cacti. These plants have adapted to survive on the marine-based ecosystem by adapting their roots to draw water from layers of mud below.
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There are so many weird and unusual plants on earth. But some of them come from a continent that seems to be the most unusual place for a plant species.
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Afriko: The continent with the most strange and unusual plants is Africa. The most well-known type of African plant is the baobab tree, which has been around since 200 antaŭ milionoj da jaroj.
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Nordameriko: North America has its share of interesting plants too – the Venus flytrap being one example. Another inhabitant of this continent’s strange plant world is the Zebra plant
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There are a lot of strange plant species all over the world. But when it comes to bizarre plants, we have to go with Antarctica. The continent has more than one hundred species of plants that no other continent can boast of.
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Kial Alkoj Gravas al Kanado?
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