Plant in sentence

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Forests are the hosts to valuable plant and animal species.

In Humbo, in southwest Ethiopia, a wonderful project to plant trees on degraded land and work with local communities on sustainable forest management has led to big increases in living standards.

Because essentially, what you're doing is you're using clean water and you're using it to flush your toilet, convey it to a wastewater treatment plant which then discharges to a river, and that river, again, is a drinking water source.

We are the generation to plant it, so that the next generation can water it, and the one that follows will enjoy the shade.

She was one of the doctors who treated victims of the Chernobyl power plant meltdown.

Take a look at this plant.

It's that the same plant has got leaves that are different shapes and sizes.

So this evolutionary foil safeguards the plant against these rather cute animals, and protects it and of course ensures its survival.

We're all familiar with the macro impact of urbanization, climate change, resource exploitation, but when that one last plant — or animal for that matter — when that very last specimen has disappeared from the face of this Earth, we would have lost an entire subset of the Earth's biology, and with it, important plants with medicinal potential or which could have ingredients that would speak to the cosmetic, nutrition, pharma, and even the ethno-veterinary sectors, be gone forever.

Now, let's go back again to that first plant I showed you, the one, of course, with different-shaped leaves and different sizes, Terminalia bentzoe, subspecies bentzoe, a plant only found in Mauritius.

Now, could this plant be the answer to antibiotic resistance?

While we may not be sure, one thing is certain: we will not want this plant to disappear.

But the harsh reality is that this particular plant is in fact considered to be vulnerable in its natural habitat.

It's a plant which is rare, which is endemic to Mauritius.

So who knows what humanity will benefit from should this plant decide to reveal all its secrets.

Now this plant here, the baobab, could be part of the answer.

It's an underutilized, neglected food plant.

Now interestingly, there are many legends which are associated with this plant.

It's a complete plant, and in fact, the sheer size of these trees is hiding a massive potential, not only for the pharma, nutrition, and the cosmetic industry.

We have six species yet in Madagascar, and we don't know what is the potential of this plant, but one thing we know is that the flora is considered to be threatened with extinction.

Let me take you to Africa again, and introduce you to one of my very favorite, the resurrection plant.

Now, this plant here has developed remarkable tolerance to drought, which enables it to withstand up to 98 percent dehydration over the period of a year without damage, and yet it can regenerate itself almost completely overnight, over 24 hours, and flower.

And this gives you an indication of what the plant looks like before.

Now, if you are an inexperienced gardener, the first thing you'll do when you visit the garden is to uproot this plant because it's dead.

And this plant, in fact, is giving the cosmetic chemists very important ingredients that are actually finding ways to slow down the aging process and at the same time reinforce the cells against the onslaught of environmental toxins.

Because the environment plays a very important role in modifying the composition of that plant.

So let's take a look at this plant here, Centella asiatica.

Now, Centella asiatica grows across the world in many different habitats — in Africa, in Asia — and this plant has been instrumental in providing a solution to that dreadful disease called leprosy in Madagascar in the 1940s.

Now, there is an ancient saying that for every disease known to mankind, there is a plant to cure it.

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