Our planet is full of surprises and unexpected discoveries, but this phenomenon for years surprised even the much experienced scientists.
Traveled several kilometers to the north of the Panama Canal Zone is the Valley, fun for your vegetation not only scientists, but also unexpected discoveries who like tourists.
Valley thousands of years ago formed from the huge El Valle de Antón volcanic ash. Huge volcano slumbering for 500 thousand years.
This place is really not the best choice for long-term life, because the volcano is not yet assigned to a group of lifeless. Nevertheless, this area has no shortage of the population, as these places local time magic, and people want to live at the foot of the volcano, paying no attention to the fact that the volcano can ever take and awaken.
El Valle de Antón Valley special with its vividly colored yellow frogs, but the largest trees attract people's attention rectangular trunk. These trees not only reminds the rectangle shape, but in fact composed almost at right angles, so adding sticks can see that from approximately 90 degrees, and the tree trunk of nearly regular square.
Researchers from the University of Florida tried to figure out what conditions lead to a unique feature of these trees. They took a few specimens have tried to grow them under normal circumstances, examined whether the trees will retain its unique shape. It was proved that only in this huge volcanic valley trees may have the following strains because their copies back to a normal round shape stem.
The local people believe that it is the El Valle de Antón volcanic ash allows the trees to maintain such trunks. They have this volcano considered special, and always believe that it affects everyone around effects.
The strangest thing is that these trees are for many years, and even the changing environment is not affecting them casts back to its normal shape and make these trees in such an exquisite patchwork of all the plant palette.
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