Random Plant Facts

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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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    Bioluminescent Plants
    Bioluminescent Plants
    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.
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    65-Year-Old Bottled Plant
    65-Year-Old Bottled Plant
    There's a plant that has survived in a sealed bottle for over 65 years. It was watered just once in 55 years.
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    Strawberries are in the same plant family as roses.
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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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    There is a “Fruit Salad Tree” which can grow up to 6 different types of fruit.
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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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    Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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