The desert is one of the most severe and cruel places on our planet, the conditions of which do not tolerate weakness. But do not forget that sometimes the nature of these parts is amazing, showing us your second nature.
Confirmation of this is desert flowers, sometimes distinguished by simply incredible beauty. One of them is the pink adenium, which is also called the "desert rose." By the way, he has very little in common with this flower.
Adenium is often called the "little baobab", as 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 low-branched branches extend from it in great numbers. Under natural conditions, these "desert flowers" reach a height of about 3.5 meters.
Many luxurious species can be found in the desert regions of the southern US states. So, the sand primrose is especially beautiful, verbena sand 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 before observers in a completely different light.
He throws his desert flowers on long stems, at the end of which large yellow inflorescences blossom. The cactus is a prickly pear prickly pear. It immediately after a harsh winter demonstrates amazing pink inflorescences, for the sake of which it is massively cultivated by plant lovers all over the world.
The flowering of a barrel cactus from afar seems like someone would put a basket of flowers in the middle of the desert. In a word, these
types of succulents are able to charm anyone who at least once watches them during this period.
But do not assume that only “overseas” lands are able to please the researcher with such beautiful representatives of the plant world. On the contrary, all deserts in the territory of the former USSR can amaze not only experienced botanists, but even completely random observers who sometimes turn out to be really enchanted by the view that opens before them.
So, the desert flowers of these places have very interesting species in their ranks. This is Severtsov’s buttercup, viviparous bluegrass, many species of stunningly beautiful poppies and remerias. These plants, blooming for just a few days, form a real carpet that completely covers the ground.
It was they who owed their power to all the ancient civilizations of the nomads, since their biomass served as the feed on which the mass of livestock was fed. Even today, agriculture in Turkmenistan itself is highly dependent on desert species.
But the flowers in the desert are unique not only for their beauty, but also for their incredible love of life. Researchers during the expeditions of the Imperial Academies and Institutes collected the richest herbariums, which also included seeds and bulbs.
After dozens of years, their Soviet colleagues accidentally discovered that approximately 70% of them had completely retained their ability to germinate! Incredibly, the bulbs of the same viviparous bluegrass thrown to the ground in flower pots began to sprout in a dozen minutes!
Thus, desert flowers, photos of which are in the article, will always amaze us with their beauty and ability to endure all the hardships of their difficult life.