Amazing Plant Facts
- North Carolina is the second largest producer of Christmas trees in the United States. North Carolina produces more than 6 million Christmas trees each year. The value of these trees is $98 million. The next one is Oregon.
- The oldest species of conifer alive is Bristle cone pines.
- Coco de mer, or double coconut palm is the largest seed in the plant kingdom which weighs 60 lbs.
- Saffron is the most precious and expensive spice in the world.
- The giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) is the largest weed. It reaches 12 ft in height and has leaves 36 inches long.
- Secale cereale has the longest roots which are about 387 miles in 1.8 cu ft of earth.
- Sequoia tree in USA is 4000 years old.
- The banana is the largest plant on earth without a woody stem.
- To find out if the watermelon is ripe, knock it. If it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
- Plants watered with warm water grow larger as compared to these watered with cold water.
- Onion reduce cholesterol if eaten after the fatty meal.
- The world softest and lightest wood is balsa.
- Bamboo grows faster than any other tree. It grows 39 inches in one day.
- Cactus has spikes which protect them from animals and help them to store water.
- The flowers are beautiful to attract birds and insects that spread pollens. Pollens is a yellow powder in flowers that when spread starts new seeds growing.
- Corns on the cob has 800 kernals arranged in 16 rows.
- The Sequoia or the Redwood is a giant tree which grows in California. It is over 110 meter high and 6 meter across the base.
- Leaves usually change colour in winters as they rest during that period. They stop making food with cholorophyll. As green colour fades, hidden colour appears.
- Trees age could be told by counting the rings on the stump of the tree. The tree add a new layer each year.
- A average mature maple tree has about 45,000 leaves on it.
- Hummingbird and parrots are among the birds which are pollen carriers. They pollinate cacti, eucalyptus and hibicus.
- Leaves are green as they contain cholorophyll, a green colour substance that turns sunlight into food for the tree.
- Meadow Saffron is one of the oldest medicinial plant which are still used in modern pharmacy.
- Fungi contribute more biomass to soil than any other organism.
- The orchids have about 25,000-35,000 species which is more than any other family of flowering plants.