World Conference on rare and toxic plant pollination, Feb 2007

Scientists bravely handle the rare species
Technical experts Dr C Caraxan and Prof A Stalwart help to prepare the models for the conference

Accurate replicas are needed to ensure that re-enactments of the life-cycle habits of plants are shown exactly as they would occur in the plant's natural habitat.

World renowned Lucas de Gracias and Jimino Von Gradvalax feed and water precious specimins in the conference Bio dome.

Today, an eminent group of leading scientists met to share their expertise on some of the rarest plants known to human-kind.

Using 'state-of-the-art' replicas of plants from some of the world's far flung spots, the botanists led a transfixed audience through demonstrations of the lifecycles of these species.

Computer generated images were used alongside materials originally developed for use in space stations, to create the models with which the scientists informed their amazed audience.

It transpired, that the weird and wonderful specimens, among which, the infamous P5601TS is found, in fact, use pollination in much the same way as many far humbler plants. During one breathtaking enactment by a group of poison plant specialists, the common bumble bee was shown approaching P5601 plant, settling upon it's stigma and depositing pollen!

One of the plants in it's natural habitat of the Moulshomian Rain Forest.

A bee braves the P5601TS plant, unwittingly putting itself at risk from the toxic chemical component of the plant's anthers.

A huge thankyou goes out to these scientists today, from all over the world, for their valuable research into these plants, many of which are being used to provide essential medicines and antidotes to harmful poisons.