plants and surrounding ecosystems in urban environments's Boletim

Our group has 37 observations in iNaturalist, and 36 of them are plants. I checked all the plants we observed, only one of them is an aquatic plant, whose name is “Hydrocotyle leucocephala”. That was the one I found in a pond. Some of the plants are shrub, but some others are tall trees. All the plants we found have one same adaptation: They can grow in temperate and subtropical climates as our hometowns are in between these two temperature belts, and these plants were found by three of us. Moreover, they are all plants capable of photosynthesis.
Among all the plants, Salix babylonica is not an aquatic plant, but It loves the moist environment along the river. The branches of a weeping willow are very soft and slender, and generally, hang downward. Salix babylonica are hardy and grow quickly, and it’s a common plant by the river in my hometown. One more peculiarity of it is resistant to toxic gases and can absorb sulfur dioxide.

So far, among all of the observations we made in the group, the plants take the majority places, since insects are hard to see, not even to capture them in photos, thus only one insect is currently in the group, which is the bee.
To find the similarity from all observations, I exclude the only one insects, thus only comparing the difference between the variety of plants. By looking throughout the 36 observations, which are 34 species, the diversity is large, which includes trees, grasses, flowering plants and fruiting plants. Some are undoubtedly high, above 10m, some are around 10cm.
The resemblances are plenty, they are all multicellular and eukaryotic, they grow in the soil thus they can reach for the minerals, they all need plentiful water and carbon dioxide and sunlight energy to survive, to produce their own food, and to perform photosynthesis. For structural similarities, they have leaves, stem and roots.
The genus Pinus are very special, they are long-lived; they have needles instead of leaves, needles are generally green; they have cones, which is very unique, cones not only can open to release seeds when mature, but also can stores seed for many years until environmental trigger.