The most beautiful flowers of the desert

The desert is one of the most severe and cruel places.on our planet, whose conditions do not tolerate weakness. But do not forget that sometimes the nature of these edges strikes the imagination, showing us its second nature.

This is confirmed by the flowers of the desert, sometimesdifferent simply incredible beauty. One of them is pink adenium, which is also called “desert rose”. By the way, he has very little in common with this flower.

Adenium is often called "little baobab",since it really looks like this African tree. So, most often it is a small fleshy bush or tree. The stem is very thick, and short and lightly branched branches abound from it. Under natural conditions, these "flowers of the desert" reach a height of about 3.5 meters.

Many luxurious species can be found indesert areas of the southern US states. So, especially beautiful sand primrose, sand verbena and agave. Yes, despite the fact that the last species for the rest of the year is an unremarkable cactus, in the spring it appears to the observers in a completely different light.

He throws out his desert flowers on longstems at the end of which bloom large yellow inflorescences. The cactus is the bottom prickly pear. She immediately after the harsh winter shows amazing pink inflorescences, for the sake of which it is massively cultivated by plant lovers all over the world.

Цветение же бочкового кактуса так и вовсе издали it is as if someone put a basket of flowers in the middle of the desert. In short, these types of succulents are able to charm anyone who has ever watched them during this period.

But do not assume that only the "overseas" landsable to please the researcher so beautiful representatives of the plant world. On the contrary, all the deserts on the territory of the former USSR can strike not only experienced botanists, but even completely random observers, who sometimes turn out to be really spellbound by the view that has opened before them.

So, the desert flowers of these places have in their ranksvery interesting views. This is Severtsov's buttercup, viviparous bluegrass, many species of stunningly beautiful poppies and chambers. These plants, blooming for only a few days, form a real carpet that completely covers the ground.

It is to them that all the ancients owe their power.civilization of nomads, as their biomass served as the food, which fed a lot of herds of cattle. Even today, the agriculture of the same Turkmenistan is highly dependent on desert species.

Но уникальны цветы в пустыне не только своей beauty, but also incredible vitality. Researchers in the times of expeditions of the Imperial Academies and Institutes collected the richest herbariums, which also included seeds and bulbs.

After decades, their Soviet colleagues accidentallyfound that approximately 70% of them fully retained their ability to germinate! Incredibly, but the bulbs of the same viviparous bluegrass, thrown on the ground in flower pots, began to sprout in ten minutes!

Thus, the flowers of the desert, the photos of which are in the article, will always amaze us with their beauty and ability to endure all their difficult lives.