Interesting Facts about Plants- Erakina

Introduction 

Plants are around us. They make our world a happier and more beautiful place to live. They nurture and nourish us. Thriving in refreshing hues of green with bright and bold coloured flowers, a look of green beauties is enough to make you feel good, innately.

Some “fun facts” about them(Plants)

1. Torenia, a shade-loving plant, is named the wishbone flower. There are tiny wishbone-shaped stamens inside the purple, blue or burgundy petals.

2. The world’s tallest-growing tree is the Sequoia sempervirens(Sequoia sempervirens), which grows along the coast of the U.S., mainly in California. Strangely enough, it isn’t the world’s oldest-growing tree; that award goes to pine(Pinus aristata).

3. Bamboo is the fastest-growing vascular plant in the world; it can grow 35 inches during a single day.

They make our world a happier and more beautiful place to measure in. 

4. Juice is the official state beverage of Ohio, honouring part A. W. Livingston of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, played in popularizing the tomato within the late 1800s.

5. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that grapes were grown to form wine about 8,000 years ago in Mesopotamia(today’s Iraq), although the traditional Egyptians were the primary ones to record the method of constructing wine about 5,000 years ago.

6. During the 1600s, tulips were so valuable in Holland that their bulbs were worth over gold. This craze for tulips was famously called tulip mania, or tulipomania, and caused the crash of the Dutch economy. Tulips can still grow the maximum amount as per day after being cut.

7. Vanilla flavourings come from the pod of an orchid, Vanilla planifolia. Though the pods are called vanilla beans, they’re more closely associated with corn than green beans.

8. The word ‘pineapple’ comes from European explorers who thought the fruit combined the planning of a pinecone with flesh like that of an apple. Pineapples are the sole edible members of the bromeliad family.

9. From a botanical standpoint, avocados and pumpkins are fruits and not vegetables as they bear the plants’ seeds. Rhubarb, on the other hand, may be a vegetable.

10. Saffron, used as a flavouring in Mediterranean cooking, is harvested from the stigmas of a sort of fall-blooming crocus, saffron crocus.

11. Poinsettias, natives of Mexico, were delivered to the U.S. in 1825 by the primary U.S. minister to Mexico, Joel Poinsett, for whom the plant is known as.

12. Small pockets of air inside the cranberries cause them to bounce and float in water.

Small pockets of air inside the cranberries allow them to float. 

13. The flower of krubi(Amorphophallus titanum) is the largest unbranched flower in the world and may reach up to a height of fifteen feet. The bloom produces a rotting meat smell, giving it the common name of corpse flower. The same smell comes from Rafflesia, another plant that hails from the rainforests of Sumatra. Both plants developed their scent so that they may be pollinated by flies; they do not compete with other blooms for butterflies and hummingbirds.

14. All parts of the oleander(Nerium oleander), an attractive Mediterranean-native shrub, are poisonous. Ingesting oleander leaves can cause gastrointestinal, cardiac, and central system problems and possible death.

15. Iris means “rainbow” in Greek. Iris was the goddess of the rainbow in classical mythology. Wormwood(Artemisia) was named after the Greek goddess Artemis, milkweed(Asclepias) after the god Asclepius, and Hebe was named after the Greek goddess Hebe.

16. In France, the day is La-Fete-du-Muguet, the festival of the lily-of-the-valley. The celebration includes giving lily-of-the-valley bouquets to loved ones, wishing them health and happiness.

17. Angiosperm is the scientific name for flowering plants and it refers to the seeds being borne in capsules or fruits. Nonflowering plants such as pines, spruces, firs, junipers, larches, cycads, and ginkgos are called gymnosperms.

18. Snapdragon flowers resemble a dragon, and if you squeeze the perimeters, the wild pink will appear to open and shut.

19. A sunflower seems like one large flower, but each head consists of many tiny flowers called florets, which ripen to become seeds. This can be the case for all plants within the sunflower family, including daisies, yarrow, goldenrod, asters, coreopsis, and bachelor’s buttons.

20. The potatoes were first cultivated around Peru about 7,000 years ago.

21. Peaches, pears, apricots, quinces, strawberries and apples are members of the rosid dicot family. So are ornamental species like spirea, mountain ash, goatsbeard and ninebark.

Apricots are members of the rosid dicot family.

22. Cranberries, Concord grapes, and blueberries are three popular fruits found in North America.

23. The difference between nectarines and peaches is that nectarines haven’t got fuzzy skins. You have to graft peach branches onto a Prunus persica nectarina or nectarine branches onto a peach so you’ve got both forms of fruits.

24. The common strawberry has 200 seeds. It is the only fruit in the world that bears its seeds on the surface.

25. Sulfuric compounds are present in onions which bring tears to your eyes when cutting them. In line with the National Onion Association, chilling the onion and cutting the base-end last, reduces the matter.

26. Sauce-alone could be a member of the Cruciferae, not garlic. This invasive herb outcompetes native plants within the Eastern and Midwestern U.S., posing a threat to other native plants and therefore the species that rely upon them.

27. Ginkgo(Ginkgo biloba) is one of the oldest living tree species ever. It dates back to around 250 million years ago. Coniferous tree(Metasequoia glyptostroboides) is another ancient species; it dates back about 150 million years. Both were known within the fossil record before they were found alive.

28. Trees are the longest-living organisms on earth.

30. Peanuts aren’t nuts, but legumes associated with beans and lentils. They need more protein, niacin, folate, and phytosterols than any nut, consistent with the National Peanut Board.
31. The title for the world’s hottest long pepper remains contested. Bhut jolokia, 401.5 times hotter than bottled hot Poivrade, earned the Guinness World Records title in 2007, but several hotter chilis have claimed the title since then.