The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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Strawberries are in the same plant family as roses.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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There's a flower called "Hooker's Lips" that literally looks like a set of hooker's lips.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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