Flowers Facts

In Hawaiian culture, wearing a flower behind the right ear traditionally signals that a person is single and available, while wearing it behind the left ear indicates they are taken.

Collect seven or nine different flowers on midsummer eve and place them under your pillow and it is said that you will dream of your future spouse. (Sweden)

Approximately 250 million roses are sold in the United States for Valentine's Day each year, with red roses accounting for the vast majority of purchases.

Viagra dissolved in water can help cut flowers stay fresh longer. Studies found that sildenafil (Viagra's active ingredient) slows the breakdown of cyclic GMP, which helps keep plant stems rigid and delays wilting.

There's a species of orchid that looks like a monkey's face.

Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.

The poinsettia is a traditional Christmas flower. In Mexico (its original birthplace), the poinsettia is known as the "Flower of the Holy Night".

There's a flower called "Hooker's Lips" that literally looks like a set of hooker's lips.

Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.

Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.

A 73-year-old flower delivery woman in Lawrence, Massachusetts was pinned under a 4,000-pound car when it rolled onto her leg. About a dozen neighbors and police officers lifted nearly two tons off her as she screamed in Spanish, clutching a stranger's leg. She walked out of hospital on her own two feet.