25 Quick plants facts

 1.The word pineapple comes from European explorers who thought the fruit combined the look of a pinecone with flesh like that of an apple.

2.The Elephant grass found in Africa is named so as it is 4.5 meters high and even elephants can hide in it.

3.Eating lots of onions will make you sleepy, as it acts as a sedative!

4.Cucumber is a fruit and not a vegetable since it has seeds in the center.

5.A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas known as fingers.

6.Vanilla flavouring comes from the pod of an orchid, Vanilla planifolia.

7.The first certified botanical garden was founded by Pople Nicholas III in the Vatican City in 1278 AD.

8.There are over 300,000 identified plant species and the list is growing all the time.

9.Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree.

10.Carrots were originally purple in colour.

11.During the 1600s, tulips were so valuable in Holland that their bulbs were worth more than gold. The craze was called tulip mania and caused the crash of the Dutch economy.

12.The baobab tree found in Africa can store 1,000 to 120,000 litres of water in its swollen trunk.

13.Oak trees don’t produce acorns until they are 50 years old.

14.Caffeine serves the function of a pesticide in a coffee plant.

15.At over 2000 kilometres long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.

16.The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

17. Acacia trees can warn each other of danger.

18.The giant montane pitcher plant has evolved to eat animall poo.

19.Bamboo is the world's fastest growing plant at 4 cm  per hour.

20.Carrots were bred to be orange . Thier natural colour is pruple. 

21.There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in our galaxy .

22.The earth has more than 80,000 species of edible plant . 

23. 90% of food human's eat   come from 30 plants . 

24. 70,000 plants species are used as medicines .

25.80 % of the original forest have been cleared or destroyed