Plants Facts

There is a poisonous plant that leaves the victim with a smile on their face at the time of death.

The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States does NOT grow branches until it is 75 years old.

Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.

While wild banana varieties can reproduce through seeds, the common cultivated banana plant primarily reproduces asexually through suckers or rhizomes. For large-scale production, human intervention is essential to propagate these plants, as they rarely produce viable seeds.

It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!

The banana plant is technically a giant herb, not a tree, making bananas the world's largest herb berry.

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!

Apples are actually part of the rose family.

Seaweed can grow up to 12 inches per day!

Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.

Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.

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

Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.

Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.

There's a plant that has survived in a sealed bottle for over 65 years. It was watered just once in 55 years.

Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.

The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.

The world's first genetically-engineered bioluminescent (glow-in-the-dark) house plants have been created and could eventually be used as a functional light source.

Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made of grass.

The TomTato is a plant that produces both potatoes and tomatoes!

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

Ancient Romans prized a plant called Silphium so highly for its medicinal and contraceptive properties that they harvested it into extinction by the first century AD.

During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!

The Sprout pencil is a plantable pencil that contains a seed inside. When it's too short to use, you can plant it and watch it grow herbs and vegetables.