In South America, unlike other parts of the world, there are an incredible variety of the animal and plant worlds.All variety of tropical flora is most clearly represented in the vast area of the Amazon Basin.It is here that there are nearly forty-four thousand species of plants.
list only some representatives of woody flora takes more than a dozen pages.These plants in South America mainly represented bobotsvetnymi.They are an ornament of tropical forests.Among the trees with spectacular flowering of the family occupies a central place caesalpinioideae.The highest representatives of the flora of the Amazon floodplain are mimosa.Trees of this species reach a height of sixty meters.In the forests of South America widespread tropical plants Euphorbiaceae and bay, and muskatnikovye kutrovyh and letsitidovye.
greatest benefit to the population of the planet brings Brazilian Hevea.This tree, which belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family, gives rubber.The plant has a fairly thick trunk.Its size can exceed one meter in width.The height of this tree can reach the mark of thirty meters.Interesting plants are found in Brazilian regions.Trees belonging to the family of kutrovyh also provide rubber.Firstly, it finds application in the manufacture of chewing gum.Valuable timber, which is not inferior in quality to the present mahogany gives macrophylla Svitene.
plants in South America, especially luxuriantly growing in the Amazon jungle, clearly presented various kinds of vines.Because of its specific kinds of Indian tribes produce local poison curare, which is applied to the tips of their arrows.
on the part of the floodplain, which is subject to flooding, grow trees.Many kinds of them are used as food by the local population.
plants in South America and presents a tree-cocoa (or chocolate).The height of this type of flora up to ten meters.Representatives of these trees are most common in the lower reaches of the Amazon.
Rainforest border the vast territory covered meadows on which grow tall herbaceous plants.Basically, they are presented in cereals.During some parts of the flood meadows can peel off the top layer of the soil and go with the flow direction as the floating islands.
South American Plants growing on the edge of the flood plain, brightly represented wetland and aquatic communities.The warm and humid climate, they are developing is particularly lush.
Quite unusual plant, which is most prevalent in the tropical area of South America, is kirkazon.This kind of vines and herbs.On the stems of the plants appear unusual large flowers.Thanks to them, kirkazon widely used landscape designers.It can be found in home gardens, greenhouses, and parks.Since ancient times used and its medicinal properties.Dutchman's pipe serves as a means of fortifying the body.He is able to calm the nervous system and normalize the digestive tract.This manifests its anti-inflammatory and diuretic function.Useful substances contained in the root kirkazona used for expansion vessels.Tincture of medicinal plants helps with malaria and fever, cure gynecological diseases and getting rid of gastric and intestinal disorders.As an external agent kirkazon used for allergic reactions, scrofula and wounds that do not heal for a long time.
