Rainforest Plants - Canna

Family: Cannaceae
Genus: Canna
Species: glauca

Common names: canna glauca, canna

General Description: Canna is a striking tropical and subtropical plant that has a bloom that comes in all shades of red, pink, yellow, orange and many combinations of those colors. Canna flowers in the summer and is a perennial, returning to bloom year after year.

Location Canna glauca , within the only genus in the family Cannaceae, is native to the Americas and Asia, particularly South America.

Uses: Canna, grown as a food product in the Andes, Vietnam and southern China, produces a starch that is used to make cellophane noodles. In regions beyond the tropics, gardeners find they can add this plant to the landscape, get the requisite six hours of sunshine daily, and protect them from freezing temperatures in winter. They grow quickly and require little attention.

This genus includes 19 species of plants with flowers that resemble lilies. Canna indica is the best known of the species; Canna flaccida is a water plant with yellow flowers; Canna glauca is another aquatic species and (originally) produces yellow flowers. These two varieties are well suited to a water garden, and add a nice tropical appeal to such landscapes.

Canna grows from rhizomes (thick underground stems) that store starch. The agricultural industry finds this plant interesting because it has to greatest amount of starch found in plants. Canna seeds are well protected; they go into 'hibernation' because the seed shell is so hard. Canna is the only member of its class (Liliopsida) able to protect its seeds in this way.

Disclaimer: The statements contained herein have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Any reference to medicinal use is not intended to treat, cure, mitigate or prevent any disease.

Tony Mandarich

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Anaconda Snakes- Eating Habits Facts

Chances are anaconda snakes eating habits is something that did not mightily interest you before you saw the movie Anaconda. Indeed, why should you, sitting at Orlando or Oslo, be even bothered about the eating habits of this particular species of snake?

Whatever the reasons may be, anaconda snakes stands apart from most of the other species in the way they stalk, hunt, eat and grow. However, before we explain in details what tickles the taste buds of these serpentine creatures, let us stress that they are no compulsive man-eaters.

Such reptiles belong to the family of snakes called boas and use great physical strength and not poison to hunt down preys and savor them. They do have strong jaws as well as sharp teeth and can inflict a painful bite but these bites are never fatal, especially for slightly bigger preys like deer and dogs.

These teeth do not contain poison sacks beneath them and act only as a tool for the hunting snake to catch the prey and drown it or constrict it to death. However, it is the ultimate muscular strength of such interesting reptile that makes it such a string predator at any fortune place you get the privilege to see it.

Anaconda snakes eating habits are largely guided by the way they hunt and their appetite. As mentioned earlier, these reptiles kill by constriction, that is, they make coils around the body of the prey and squeeze. Every time the hapless prey breathes out and the chest deflates, the grip of the snake tightens, and finally crushes the prey. Given that a full-grown female this reptile can be as big as thirty feet and may weight well over two hundred and fifty kilograms, they need heavy food to sustain themselves.

Baby anaconda snakes prefer smaller and primarily aquatic preys like frogs, fish as well as rodents like mice and rats. Adult, fully grown anacondas prey on practically any animal it can overpower, and the kind of prey ranges from large rodents to fishes, turtles, sheep, dogs, fully grown deeps to even jaguars. Anacondas, however, are no habitual man-eaters and hence pose no special threat to humans populating the river basin.

As a matter of fact, human fear for these snakes is more than reciprocated by the serpentine species, and is known to have retreated rapidly when they faced humans.

Anaconda snakes, atypical to any other snake, do not chew or tear the flesh of the prey. They swallow the complete prey and then use muscular movements to gradually push the corpse down its throat to the stomach where the corpse is digested by enzymes secreted.

Their jaws are not fixed together but are loosely bound to its skull and this helps such reptile to unhinge their jaws and swallow preys that are much bigger than the size or its mouth. If you are disappointed from the fact that they are not fierce and despicable man-eaters and with anaconda snakes eating habits, you should blame the movie and not the snake.

Anaconda Snakes are scientifically studied predators being monitored in the Snakes Educational Center. You can also freely learn more in the center's new topics, including videos and educational facts at http://www.anacondasnakes.org

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