The hurricane plant has holes in its leaves, which keep it from being destroyed by wind.
* The canopy of a rainforest is so thick, only one percent of sunlight reaches the ground.
* A living tree never stops growing.
* 40% of prescripition drugs dispensed in the U.S. have active ingredients derived from plants, animals or microorganisms, many of them from forests.
* A banana is about 75 percent water.
* The world’s fastest-growing plant is the giant water lily, which grows almost a foot a day.
* Researchers recently sprouted a lotus seed known to be 1,288 years old, making it the oldest seed ever germinated.
* The Venus flytrap takes less than half a second to slam shut on an insect.
* A single large tree can release up to 400 gallons of water into the atmosphere each day.
* Rafflesia flowers attract pollinating flies by looking and smelling like rotten meat.
* One acre of trees absorbs enough carbon dioxide per year to match that emitted by driving a car 26,000 miles.
* The world’s largest flower is the Rafflesia arnoldi. It can grow to the size of an umbrella.
* The saguaro cactus of the Arizona Desert grows less than one inch in it’s first 10 years.
* In the 1800’s an Eggplant was known as a “mad apple” and believed to be poisonous.
* One cord of wood can make 7 and a half million toothpick.
Facts About Plants
Plants-Interesting Facts
- Cabbage has 91% water.
- Apple is 25% air, that is why it floats on water.
- Apple,Onions & potatoes have same taste, don’t believe it.Here is the test: Pinch your nose & taste all 3 ,find any difference?
- The oldest trees in the world :California Bristlecone pines and Giant Sequoias are regarded as the oldest trees and have been known to live 4000 to 5000 years.
- Carrots were originally purple in color.
- When an insect touches the hairs of a Venus Fly Trap it triggers the plant to close, trapping its victim before killing anddissolving it in acid.
- Elephant grass in Africa is named after elephants as it is about 4.5 meter high and even elephants can hide in this grass
- The Baobab tree in Africa is an amazing plant.It is known for its water storage capacity in it trunk.It can store 1000 litersto 120000 liters of water ints swollen trunk.
- Cutting onions releases a gas which causes a stinging sensation when it comes into contact with your eyes. Your body produces tears to dilute the irritant and remove it from your eyes.
- The first diesel engine ran on peanut oil.
- The study of plants is a branch of Biology.
- 84% of a raw apple and 96% of a raw cucumber is water.
- Rice paper isn’t made from rice but from a small tree which grows in Taiwan.
- Trees get about 90% of their nutrition from the atmosphere (carbon dioxide, etc), and only about 10% from the soil.
- The averaged size tree can provide enough wood to make 170,000 pencils.
- The world’s tallest tree is a Sequoia (or California Redwood) in California; it is more than 360 feet tall.
- The world’s oldest living tree is thought to be in Sweden. Its root system has been growing for 9,550 years. Now that’s old!
- An average size tree produces enough oxygen in one year to keep a family of four breathing.
- A method used to verify the age of a tree is to count the rings in the tree’s trunk.
- A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are known as fingers. The word 'banan' is Arabic for finger.
- The very first type of aspirin, or pain killer and fever reducer came from the tree bark of the willow tree.
- Apples, not caffeine or tea , are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- Chocolate is a food made from cacao beans.
- Mango is called king of the fruits.
- Because bananas are easy to digest and are very nutritious, they are the first fruit offered to babies.
- Strawberries are the only fruit which grows seeds on the outside.
- A cucumber is a fruit not a vegetable. Why? Because it has seeds in the centre.
- Leaving skin on potatoes is healthier as all vitamins are in the skin.
- Eating a lot of onions will make you sleepy, as it acts as a sedative.
- Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy.
- Watermelon is considered a good gift to give a host in Japan and China.
- The original Ketchup did not have any tomatoes,the primary ingredient was fish brine mixed with herbs.The roots of ketchup are traced back to China, with a sauce they called ke-tsiap.
- Petals are usually colorful, and they attract insects and birds that help with pollination.
- Do you know the rose family of plants, in addition to flowers, gives us apples, pears, plums, cherries, almonds and peaches .
- The largest single flower is the Rafflesia or “corpse flower”. They are generally 3 feet in diameter with the record being 42 inches.
- A notch in a tree will remain the same distance/height from the ground as the tree grows.
- Trees lower air temperature by evaporating water in their leaves.
- Have you heard a mushroom called Death Cap ?It looks like a harmless mushroom but it contains poison & can kill a human being with in 6 hours of eating due to kidney & liver failure.
- The water hyacinth is the world's fastest growing water plant & world's biggest water plant is Amazon lily ,its floating leaves grow up to 6 feet.
- Dendrochronology is the science of calculating a tree’s age by its rings.Rings in the stem of a tree can tell the age of a tree.
- Tree rings not only tell us age of the tree but they can also tell us about environmental events, including volcanic eruptions.
- Cricket bats are made of a tree called Willow & base-balls bats are made out of wood of tree called Hickory.
- The broadest trees around the world are thre Baobab trees in Africa & the Sequioa trees in North America, their trunks are so large that a good sized apartment can be housed in there!
- The first certified botanical garden was founded by Pope Nicholas III at the Vatican in 1278 AD.
- Wood sorrel is plant which has two flowers ,one to attract bees to spread its pollen & other to make seeds.
- The world's fastest growing plant is Burma's giant bamboo,it can grow 17 centimeter in a day.
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