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18 plant facts
By: eba95 Date: August 9, 2010, 4:45 am
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Venus-fy-trap,
pitcher plant,
bladder wort
etc are insect
eating plants,
they derive
thier nitrogen
from them.
In California's
Wheeler Park,
there is a
Bristlecone pine
tree with an
estimated age
of 5,000 years.
An american
coast red wood
reaches a
height of 110
m.
Bamboo is not a
tree but a grass.
It grows
amazingly fast,
at the rate of
three feet a
day.
The sunflower
always turns
towards
sunlight.
Coffee was
discovered by
goats.
The flower of
artillery plant
measures only
0.35 mm in
diameter. It is
the smallest
ever known
flower.
The flower of
Rafflesia
measures 90
cm in diameter
and is the
largest known
flower.
Boxwood is so
heavy that it
does not float
on water but
sinks.
Seaweed is
used in the
manufacturing
of fertilizers,
medicines,
paint,
toothpaste and
in icecreams
too.
The oldest
known living
seed came from
a North
American Arctic
Lupin. It was
found in 1954,
buried in frozen
silt near Miller
Greek in central
Yukon-Canada,
by a mining
engineer
named Schmidt.
It had been
there for 10,000 years. Yet,
when scientist planted it, a
plant grew which was
identical to the modern
plant.
The greatest depth at which
plant life has been found is
884 feet.
There are about 252 varities
of potato grown in the
world.
Coniferous forests of the
Northern Russia are the
largest in the world.
Edible mushrooms grow to
their full size within seven
days.
Tree trunk of the baobab tree
in Kenya is so long that some
people make their homes
with the hollowed out
trunks.
A cactus plant, only three
feet tall may have roots
spreading out to a lenght of
ten feet across the desert.
Orchid seeds are so small that
one million of these would
weigh somewhat less than 1
gm.
Plants produce oxygen in
day time which is ten times
more than the carbon
dioxide produced at night.
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