#mount roraima

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Brocchinia tatei, native to Venezuela and Guyana, has a unique symbiosis relationship with microbes. It's not carnivorous but hosts nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria in its 'water tanks' that convert atmospheric nitrogen into bioavailable nutrients the plant can absorb, fascinating!

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Mount Roraima, Venezuela

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Mount Roraima Mountain, South America: Mount Roraima is the highest of the Pacaraima chain of tepuis or plateaux in South America. It is located at the junction of Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela. A characteristic large flat-topped mountain surrounded by cliffs 400–1,000 m high. Wikipedia

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View from Mount Roraima, Brazil.

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The oldest place on planet earth is in Venezuela. It's called Mount Roraima.

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Mount Roraima is located in the northern part of South America and on the triple border between Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana.

Located in the Canaima National Park, it is the highest of the tepuis — a type of table-shaped mountain very characteristic of the Guiana Plateau — standing almost 3,000 metres above sea level.

Mount Roraima is composed of sandstone of the Proterozoic Eon formed about 1.7 to 2 billion years ago, therefore among the oldest rocks on Earth.

It contains a large amount of quartz deposits, 98% are silica particles, forming white or pinkish crystals several centimetres long.

(Via Meteored)

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Makai Geographic Channel

The Plateau of the Beheaded (断首台の丘) in the Demon World.

Mount Roraima in South America (tripoint of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil).

I don't know if Togashi was inspired by Mount Roraima, but I think those mountain plateaus are very similar.

It also seems that the design of the Gargantuan Okunen Tree, where the Demon World Tournament preliminary matches took place, was inspired by some species of Dracaena (dragon tree):

Okunenju. Literally: Super Giant Plant・Billion-year-old Tree (超巨大植物・億年樹)

Dragon Tree

Let's not forget the famous Mimosa pudica (touch-me-not) from the Demon World used by Youko Kurama against Karasu. As he explained, it is a plant indigenous to South America. But Karasu was not interested in gardening T_T

Demon World's Mimosa pudica (魔界のオジギソウ)

Mimosa pudica. Their leaves fold inward and droop when touched, defending themselves from harm, and re-opening a few minutes later.

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