Some Plant facts for you.
The Elephant grass found in Africa is named so as it is 4.5 meters high and even elephants can hide in it.
Eating lots of onions will make you sleepy, as it acts as a sedative.
Vanilla flavouring comes from the pod of an orchid, Vanilla planifolia.
During the 1600s, tulips were so valuable in Holland that their bulbs were worth more than gold.
Some oak trees don’t reach peak acorn production acorns until they are 50 years old.
At over 2000 kilometres long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
Carrots were originally purple in colour.
Leaving the skin on potatoes while cooking is healthier as all the vitamins are in the skin.
Bamboo is the fastest-growing woody plant in the world; it can grow 35 inches in a single day!
A sunflower looks like one large flower, but each head is composed of hundreds of tiny flowers called florets, which ripen to become the seeds!
Eating lots of onions will make you sleepy, as it acts as a sedative.
Vanilla flavouring comes from the pod of an orchid, Vanilla planifolia.
During the 1600s, tulips were so valuable in Holland that their bulbs were worth more than gold.
Some oak trees don’t reach peak acorn production acorns until they are 50 years old.
At over 2000 kilometres long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
Carrots were originally purple in colour.
Leaving the skin on potatoes while cooking is healthier as all the vitamins are in the skin.
Bamboo is the fastest-growing woody plant in the world; it can grow 35 inches in a single day!
A sunflower looks like one large flower, but each head is composed of hundreds of tiny flowers called florets, which ripen to become the seeds!
