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Wonderful and Weirdest plants in Amazon rainforest

The Amazon rainforest is largest tropical forest in the world, containing some of the most biodiverse plant species. The Amazon rainforest is home to as many as 80,000 plants species from which more than 40,000 species play a critical role in regulating global climate and water cycle. Here is the list of some of the most wonderful and amazing plants of Amazon rainforest. 1 . Giant Water Lilies (Victoria amazonica):- These impressive Water Lilies have been seen in an Amazon River. It's very large leaf surface,can grow up to 46cm. In diameter . The leaves of this plant are so strong, they can support upto  136 kg . 2. Passion Fruit Flower (Passiflora) :- It's a   beautiful passion flower which is often seen in the Amazon rainforest. The leaves of the flowers are used as pain reliever and sedatives, and fruit is used to treat cough. 3. Monkey Brush Vine :- The interior part of Amazon rainforest c...

Do you want to know some interesting facts about Amazon?

The Amazon Rainforest covering much of North Western Brazil and extending into Columbia, Peru and other South American countries, is the world's largest tropical rainforest , famed for it's biodiversity. Supporting a huge number of plants and animals and hugely important to our own survival. What's interesting about Amazon Rainforest:-   AmazonTropical Rainforest only cover about 6% of the Earth's surface , but they are home to more than half the world's total plants and animals. Around 80% of the food we eat originally came from rainforests like coffee, chocolate, rice, tomatoes, potatoes, bananas, black pepper, pine apples and corn etc. The Amazon forest floor is almost completely dark with the less than 1% of the available sunlight making it through the tree canopy above. There are around 3000 fruits found in rainforest and in the west we make use of around 200 of them. However indigenous tribes make use of over 2000. We often thin...