Whether you are taking a small walk around the block or traveling to distant places abroad, nature can astonish you in its abilities and creations if you only know where to look. Sometimes nature even does things we didn’t know it could, either with the help of man or without our intervention. In the following 15 pictures, you’ll see what vegetation can do and how powerful the creative power of nature is, and you’ll certainly be amazed to discover some things you wouldn’t even believe really exist in reality.
1. The locals in Meghalaya, India, have, for several hundred years, raised several hundred bridges over riverbeds with only tree roots
2. The roots of this tree were shaped by the grooves between the curbstones
3. A water lily - a large Victoria, which children can actually sit on
4. Such symmetrical "mistakes" are rare in nature
5. Flowers on a cactus
6. A building with an entire jungle that grew on its side in Madrid, Spain
7. The lower part of a fern’s leaves
8. A tree suspended between two cliffs on a beach in the state of Oregon, USA
9. A particularly turquoise-colored Celosia
10. A houseplant called Trachyandra
11. A perfectly geometric succulent
12. Whoever grew this bonsai tree is definitely an artist
13. A Hoya plant - also called a wax plant, as you can clearly see why
14. Palm tree which is literally a roller coaster
15. A climbing plant changing its colors slowly in autumn
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