Plant Facts
Check out all the fun and interesting plant facts which you didn’t knew. These facts will amaze you, and your friends also!
- Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make people feel happy.
- The study of plants is a branch of Biology.
- 85% of plant life is found in the ocean.
The only plants that grow in Antarctica are lichens, mosses, the Antarctic hair grass and one fungi species.
- There are over 300,000 identified plant species and the list is growing all the time.
- Ginkgo is one of the oldest living tree species.
- Trees get about 90% of their nutrition from the atmosphere (carbon dioxide, etc), and only about 10% from the soil.
- Around 2000 different types of plants are used by humans to make food.
- Bamboo is the fastest-growing woody plant in the world.
- The averaged size tree can provide enough wood to make 170,000 pencils.
- The Amazon rainforest produces half the world’s oxygen supply.
- The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus.
- The world’s oldest living tree is thought to be in Sweden. Its root system has been growing for 9,550 years.
- At over 2000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
- The first certified botanical garden was founded by Pope Nicholas III at the Vatican in 1278 AD.
- The tiniest tree in the world is Dwarf Willow ,its size is about two inches.
- There’s a garden in England dedicated to plants that kill.
- Some plants are carnivorous. They eat insects.
- Sunflowers bend towards the sun because the sun destroys a growth hormone so the shady side grows faster.
- Dendrochronology is the science of calculating a tree’s age by its rings.
- The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
