Scientific Name for the Bleeding Heart
The scientific name for the Bleeding Heart is 'Lamprocapnos spectabilis'.
Adaptations
These 2 adaptations are key to the plant spreading and being protected
The first adaptation being the seeds. The seeds of the bleeding heart are appealing to ants. The seeds themselves are black and shiny but the most appealing parts to the ants was the white appendages. The white part draws the ant in and the ant bring both the seeds and the white appendages back to its hill. The ant will eat the white part and leave the black seeds to germinate and grow. This helps the plant spread around and reproduce.
The second adaptation is the poison all over the plant. The poison is everywhere and whenever the plant was eaten it causes skin irritation warding the enemies of the plant off. This stops all predators of the plant eating the plant or if they do eat the plant they will get poisoned and will know not to eat the plant again.
The first adaptation being the seeds. The seeds of the bleeding heart are appealing to ants. The seeds themselves are black and shiny but the most appealing parts to the ants was the white appendages. The white part draws the ant in and the ant bring both the seeds and the white appendages back to its hill. The ant will eat the white part and leave the black seeds to germinate and grow. This helps the plant spread around and reproduce.
The second adaptation is the poison all over the plant. The poison is everywhere and whenever the plant was eaten it causes skin irritation warding the enemies of the plant off. This stops all predators of the plant eating the plant or if they do eat the plant they will get poisoned and will know not to eat the plant again.
Human Impact
There is not a lot of human impact as the bleeding heart is mostly undisturbed in the places that it lives. The only time that the bleeding heart may be destroyed is when a human gets poisoned and the owner wants to remove it so that doesn't happen ever again. The other impact is logging and the removal of forests. This logging runs downs all types of plants including the bleeding hearts. In these days although logging still happens and all plants are affected but the bleeding heart is mostly in places like the Botany bay National park. This area is unaffected by logging as it is a protected site.