{"id":5012,"date":"2022-11-08T08:32:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T13:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifoxany.com\/?p=5012"},"modified":"2022-11-14T03:49:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T08:49:04","slug":"30-fun-facts-about-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifoxany.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/08\/30-fun-facts-about-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Fun Facts About Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We’ll bet you didn’t know you\u00a0can<\/em>\u00a0cut onions without crying. Here are some fun and interesting facts about plants.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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There’s a lot more to our plants than we realize. Secrets are lurking everywhere in our gardens. Here are 30 super interesting facts you may not have known\u2014until today, of course.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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1.\u00a0Torenia,<\/em>\u00a0a shade-loving annual, is called the\u00a0wishbone flower. Look for tiny wishbone-shaped stamens inside the purple, blue or burgundy petals.<\/p>

2. The world’s tallest tree is the coast redwood\u00a0(Sequoia sempervirens),<\/em>\u00a0which grows along the Pacific Coast of the United States, mainly in California. Interestingly enough, it’s not the world’s oldest growing tree; that award goes to a bristlecone\u00a0pine\u00a0(Pinus aristata).<\/em><\/p>

3.\u00a0Bamboo\u00a0is the fastest growing woody plant in the world. It can grow up to 35 inches in a single day.<\/p>

4.\u00a0Tomato\u00a0juice is the official state beverage of Ohio, honoring the part A. W. Livingston of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, played in popularizing the tomato in the late 1800s.<\/p>

5. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that about 8,000 years ago,\u00a0grapes\u00a0were grown to make wine in the Caucasus (present-day Georgia), although the ancient Egyptians were the first to record the process of making herbal wine, about 5,000 years ago.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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6. During the 1600s in Holland, tulips were so valuable that their bulbs were worth more than gold. The craze was called tulip mania, or tulipomania, and caused the crash of the Dutch economy. Fun fact: Tulips can continue to grow as much as an inch per day after being cut.<\/p>

7. Vanilla flavoring comes from the pod of an orchid,\u00a0Vanilla planifolia.<\/em>\u00a0Though the pods are called vanilla beans, they’re more closely related to\u00a0corn\u00a0than\u00a0green beans.<\/p>

8. The word pineapple comes from European explorers who thought the fruit combined the look of a pinecone with flesh similar to an apple. Pineapples are the only edible members of the bromeliad family.<\/p>

9. From a botanical standpoint, avocados and\u00a0pumpkins\u00a0are fruits, not vegetables, because they bear the plants’ seeds.\u00a0Rhubarb, on the other hand, is a vegetable.<\/p>

10.\u00a0Saffron, used as a flavoring in Mediterranean cooking, is harvested from the stigmas of a type of fall-blooming\u00a0crocus,\u00a0Crocus sativus.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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11. Poinsettias, natives of Mexico, were brought to the United States in 1825 by the first U.S. minister to Mexico, Joel Poinsett, for whom the plant was named.<\/p>

12. Small pockets of air inside cranberries cause them to bounce and float in water.<\/p>

13. The flower of the titan arum\u00a0(Amorphophallus titanium)<\/em>\u00a0is the largest unbranched flower in the world and can reach up to 15 feet tall. The bloom produces an odor similar to rotting meat, hence the common name ‘corpse flower.’ A similar odor comes from\u00a0Rafflesia,<\/em>\u00a0another plant that hails from the rainforests of Sumatra. Both developed their scent to attract pollinating flies; they don’t compete with other blooms for\u00a0butterflies and hummingbirds.<\/p>

14. All parts of the\u00a0oleander\u00a0(Nerium oleander),<\/em>\u00a0a beautiful flowering shrub native to the Mediterranean, are poisonous. Ingesting oleander leaves can cause gastrointestinal, cardiac, and central nervous system problems and possible death.<\/p>

15.\u00a0Iris\u00a0means “rainbow” in Greek, and Iris was goddess of the rainbow in Greek mythology. Wormwood\u00a0(Artemisia)<\/em>\u00a0was named after the goddess Artemis,\u00a0milkweed\u00a0(Asclepias)<\/em>\u00a0after Asclepius, the Greek god of healing, and\u00a0Hebe<\/em>\u00a0after Hebe, the Greek goddess of youth..<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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16. In France, May 1 is\u00a0La Fete du Muguet,<\/em>\u00a0the festival of the\u00a0lily-of-the-valley. The celebration includes giving bouquets of the flowers to loved ones, wishing them health and happiness.<\/p>

17. Angiosperm is the scientific name for flowering plants and refers to the seeds being borne in capsules or fruits. Nonflowering plants\u2014\u00a0pines,\u00a0spruces,\u00a0firs,\u00a0junipers,\u00a0larches, cycads, and\u00a0ginkgoes\u2014are called gymnosperms.<\/p>

18.\u00a0Snapdragon\u00a0flowers resemble a dragon, and if you squeeze the sides, the dragon’s mouth will appear to open and close.<\/p>

19. A\u00a0sunflower\u00a0looks like one large flower, but each head is composed of hundreds of tiny flowers\u2014called florets\u2014which ripen to become the seeds. This is the case for all plants in the sunflower family, including daisies,\u00a0yarrow,\u00a0goldenrod,\u00a0asters,\u00a0coreopsis, and\u00a0bachelor’s buttons.<\/p>

20. The first\u00a0potatoes\u00a0were cultivated in Peru about 7,000 years ago.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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21.\u00a0Peaches,\u00a0pears, apricots, quinces, strawberries, and apples are members of the rose family. So are ornamental species such as\u00a0spirea, mountain ash,\u00a0goatsbeard, and\u00a0ninebark.<\/p>

22. Cranberries, Concord\u00a0grapes, and\u00a0blueberries\u00a0are three popular fruits native to North America.<\/p>

23. The main difference between\u00a0nectarines\u00a0and\u00a0peaches\u00a0is that nectarines have smooth, not fuzzy, skins. You can graft peach branches onto a nectarine tree, or vice versa, so you have both types of fruits.<\/p>

24. The average\u00a0strawberry\u00a0has 200 seeds. It’s the only fruit that bears its seeds on the outside.<\/p>

25. Sulfuric compounds are to blame for cut\u00a0onions\u00a0bringing tears to your eyes. According to the\u00a0National Onion Association, chilling the onion and cutting the root end last reduces the problem.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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26. Garlic mustard is a member of the mustard family, not\u00a0garlic. This invasive herb outcompetes native plants in the Eastern and Midwestern United States, posing a threat to other native plants and the species that depend on them.<\/p>

27.\u00a0Ginkgo\u00a0(Ginkgo biloba)<\/em>\u00a0is one of the oldest living tree species, and dates back about 250 million years.\u00a0Dawn redwood\u00a0(Metasequoia glyptostroboides)<\/em>\u00a0is another ancient species; it dates back about 150 million years. Both were known in the fossil record before they were found alive.<\/p>

28. Trees are the longest-living organisms on earth.<\/p>

29. Peanuts are not nuts, but legumes related to beans and lentils. They have more protein, niacin, folate, and phytosterols than any nut, according to the National Peanut Board.<\/p>

30. The title for the world’s hottest chili pepper remains contested. Bhut jolokia, or ‘ghost pepper,’ is 401.5 times hotter than bottled hot pepper sauce and earned the Guinness World Records title in 2007, but was replaced by the Carolina Reaper.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ll bet you didn’t know you can cut onions without crying. Here are some fun and interesting facts about plants. There’s a lot more to our plants than we realize. Secrets are lurking everywhere in our gardens. Here are 30 super interesting facts you may not have known\u2014until today, of course. 1. Torenia, a shade-loving annual, is called the wishbone flower. Look for tiny wishbone-shaped stamens inside the purple, blue or burgundy petals. 2. The world’s tallest tree is the coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), which grows along the Pacific Coast of the United States, mainly in California. Interestingly enough, it’s not the world’s oldest growing tree; that award goes to a bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata). 3. Bamboo is the fastest growing woody plant in the world. It can grow up to 35 inches in a single day. 4. Tomato juice is the official state beverage of Ohio, honoring the part A. W. Livingston of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, played in popularizing the tomato in the…<\/p>\n

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