TOP 10 PLANTS FACTS

 1. An average size tree can provide enough wood to make 170,100 pencils.

2. The first type of aspirin, painkiller and fever reducer came from the tree bark of a willow tree.

3. 85% of plant life is found in the ocean .

4. Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make people feel happy.

5. Brazil is named after a tree.

6. The Amazon rainforest produces half the world’s oxygen supply.

7. Cricket bats are made of a tree called Willow and baseball bats are made out of the wood of the Hickory tree.

8. Dendrochronology is the science of calculating a tree’s age by its rings.

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

10. Apple is 25% air, that is why it floats on water.