20 Interesting Facts About Plants

Plants are considered the providers of food, shelter, and oxygen. It is said that almost 2 lakh pieces of plants are found on earth, out of which 85% are found in oceans. It is also said that some of the plants are also used for medicinal purposes, and they make their own food and are the providers of food for other living beings. Read this blog to learn some more “Interesting facts about plants.”

Interesting Facts about Plants

There are many interesting facts about plants that everyone should know about, some of which are as follows:

1. The wishbone flower, Torneia, is a shade-loving plant that is shaped like a wishbone.
2. Coast redwood is the world’s tallest living tree and grows on the United States Pacific coast.
3. The fastest-growing wood plant in the world is bamboo, which can grow up to 35 inches in a single day.
4. There is evidence from archaeologists that wine was produced in the Caucasus region some 8,000 years ago.
5. Around 5000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians were the first to record the process of making herbal wine.

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6. Tulips were considered so valuable in Holland during the 1600s that their bulbs were worth more than gold.
7. The pod of the Vanilla planifolia orchid is used to flavor food with vanilla.
8. European explorers named the fruit pineapple because they believed it had an apple-like flesh and a pinecone-like appearance.
9. Saffron, used as a flavor in Mediterranean cooking, is considered to be harvested from the fall-blooming Crocus, known as Crocus sativus.
10.  Cranberries in water bounce and float because of tiny air pockets inside of them.

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11. The Wormwood plant was named after the goddess Artemis, and the milkweed plant after Asclepius, who is the Greek god of healing.
12. La Fete du Muguet, or the lily-of-the-valley festival, is celebrated on May 1st in France.
13.  Snapdragon flowers have a dragon-like appearance, and they seem to have an opening and closing mouth when you squeeze their sides.
14. Although a sunflower appears to be one big flower, each head is made up of hundreds of tiny flowers, or florets, which eventually mature into seeds.
15. Around 7000 years ago, the first potatoes were cultivated in Peru.
16. The three popular native fruits of North America are cranberries, Concord grapes, and blueberries.
17. A typical strawberry contains 200 seeds. All other fruits do not have externally visible seeds.
18. Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is a nearly 250 million-year-old tree species, making it one of the oldest species that is still in existence.
19. Trees are the longest-living organisms on earth.
20. Though they resemble beans and lentils, peanuts are not nuts; they are legumes. Compared to other nuts, they contain higher levels of protein, niacin, folate, and phytosterols.

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