While lightning is an attractive phenomenon, it is infamous because of its ability to destroy and the danger to life on earth. However, this phenomenon is life for a native South American tree rather than being destructive.
According to RCO News Agency, Lightning destroys hundreds of millions of trees around the world every year, leaving burnt trunks and broken branches. However, in the charming twist of nature, some tropical trees have used this destructive force of nature to their favor.
A recent study reports that the tropical almond tree, also known as “Almendro”, native to Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador, not only survives the direct collision of lightning.
The researchers discovered that lightning damages the surrounding trees directly competing to attract resources, as well as destroying rising plants that are responsible for choking and reducing the growth of many rainforest trees.
The researchers have long suspected that some tree species were resistant to lightning, but there was no empirical evidence to confirm this hypothesis.
A team of researchers led by Ivan Gora deployed a lightning location system in the center of Panama to track the effects of subsequent lightning on four trees.
Scientists over the course of five years paid special attention to four “Dipteryx Oleifera” trees that were hit by lightning.
It is noteworthy that every single trees survived by minor damage. On the contrary, all other trees that were exposed to direct lighting were severely damaged, and about two -thirds of them were dried up two years after the hike.
“It was very interesting to see the trees that lightning, and their mood is good,” says Gora.
On average, a lightning destroys 1.5 adjacent trees by passing through the branches. In addition, the contamination of these special trees to the raising plants decreased by 5 % and increased by less competition for sunlight, space and nutrients, fertility and reproduction of these trees.
The 3D mapping produced by drones showed that lightning Almandros were about 2 meters taller than their unprocessed lightning neighbors. With this taller, these trees may be 6 percent more than other trees and act as a natural lightning.
Since these trees can live for hundreds of years, they are expected to resist multiple lightning blows throughout their lives.
“It is better for the” Dipteryx Oleifera “to eat thunderstorms.
This tree has used a very unusual survival mechanism in evolutionary conditions. Removing competitors and plants at the expense of a minor injury seems to be a winning strategy for this tree.
This study is published in the journal New PhyTologist.
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