unusual habits of plants you don’t know

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Before scientific developments and for sometime even after that, plants were only considered to be living. But their treatment value was only realized by people afterwards slowly. Initially people only knew that plants breathe like humans and breathe out oxygen, which is inhaled by humans. But later, studies of plants went deeper and their ability to cure a lot of things was found. Today, there is a separate science of plants.

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Plants are non-vegetarian
Can plants be non-vegetarian too? Yes, a plant called Kalash-Padap (Nepenthis Albomarjineta), hunts and eats termites. Not just one, this plant can consume around 1,000 termites at one go. This plant is also used to kill pests.

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Plants talk to each other
Plants can talk with each other. They can even pass on the information from one to other. You’ll be shocked to know that when camels eat the corner fresh leaves hanging from the branches of Babool trees, the leaves start secreting a harmful gas, which settles on the entire tree. This gas makes the leaves sour in taste and camels are forced to not eat them.

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Plants give signals to each other
Like Babool, cabbage too sends signals to each other. The moment a vegetarian animal or a pest enters the farm of cabbage, the vegetable starts secreting a harmful gas, which spreads on the entire plant. Small insects like grass hoppers, dragon flies, etc can’t control this smell and leave the farm.

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Plants have chemical weapons
Plants have chemical weapons for their enemies. Like Babool and cabbage, a Neem leaf protects itself from its enemies. Actually whenever an ant or other small insect try to hurt the leaves on neem, it produces a strong smell, which can’t be inhaled by the insects and hence they move away.

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Plants feel pain
Like us even plants feel the pain. This has been read by a reading machine and found that whenever a part of plant, be it leaf or branch is cut, a fluid comes out. This fluid is like blood of humans. It flows for some time and then stops. Immediately the healing process begins.

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Plants create electricity
Scientists have confirmed that there are certain living plants that can produce electricity. There is one kind of grass called Reed that can produce good amount of electricity. When seen on the voltmeter, it was found that this grass under normal condition can produce electricity of 250 mili volt.

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Plants can dance
Whenever soft melodious music is played in front of a plant called Disodium Goyraunce, it leaves start to dance. This has been tried, tested and proved.

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