Rare plants which can live many years!

Helicodiceros muscivorus

Helicodiceros muscivorus is an ornamental plant native to Corsica, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands. The flowers of Helicodiceros muscivorus smell like rotting meat, attracting carrion-seeking blowflies which act as pollinators. One of a rare group of thermogenic plants, the dead horse arum can raise its temperature by thermogenesis. This helps to lure flies into the plant to contact its pollen.

Pine Methuselah

Pine Methuselah is the oldest tree in the world. Its age exceeds 4850 years. And she got the name after the biblical character who was the only long-lived all over the world.

This majestic tree is growing in the US, in the mountains White Mountains at an altitude of 3000 meters. Its exact location is known only to botanists, who are monitoring the pine. Such secrecy stems from the fact that protect against vandalism of the watchman. After all, tourists wanting to be photographed with him or tear on the memory piece of bark thousands. Many go to the mountains to find this mysterious tree, but all their attempts end in failure. Pine Methuselah is not a tree, a symbol of eternity, that looks like the dead, but in each of its branch hidden life. Tree of Life  the lonely tree in the world. Probably, like life itself, reminiscent loneliness among crowds of people. It is only on the sands of the vast desert of Bahrain, a hundred kilometers from any vegetation.

Puia Raimondi

Puia Raimondi is a plant that lives for 150 years, to gain vitality and die. Die forever, giving the world the unearthly beauty of its flowers.Growing from a round and a huge bowl, the plant reaches a height of 3 meters. Of a thin stalk develops powerful trunk resembling a tree. But a huge "bump" barbed-looking, looks like a huge flower, which for 100 years is slowly growing in height. Lived 150 years, and mustered vital energy, it gives the world a scattering of thousands of flowers and dies. Dies forever.

Sarv-e-Abarkooh 

It is ahuge cypress growing in Iran, as it seems, it is the oldest tree in Asia. Scientists estimate its age in 4000 - 4500 thousand years, which is about the time of completion of construction of Stonehenge. Recognized by the national plant property boasts a height of 25 meters and a girth of 11 meters.

General Sherman

Giant sequoia growing in California national park, is not only one of the oldest trees in the world, but also one of the highest. Its height is 83.8 meters, and the circumference at the base - 31 meters. Statistics loving Americans indicated installed near a tree plate from his trunk, you can build 40 houses, and if you put it next to the passenger train, the tree will probably longer. As for the age, it is estimated at 2300 - 2700 years.

Senator

It is a majestic cypress, whose age is estimated at approximately three and a half thousand years, surrounded by palm trees growing in the Florida park giant trees. Height of 38 meters allows it to significantly rise above his fellows, and serve as a beacon for many tourists.

Cypress began to grow at about the same time when the first settlements in Fiji were Polynesians. A total of twelve meters from Senator tree grows another survivor. This Lady Liberty, towering above the ground on the twenty-seven meters, whose diameter is three meters, she has been living for more than two thousand years.