facts about plant

Facts about Plant

Here is a list of all the fun and interesting plant facts which you didnt know.
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Poinsettias, natives of Mexico, were brought to the United States in 1825 by the first U.S. minister to Mexico, Joel Poinsett, for whom the plant is named.
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Small pockets of air inside cranberries cause them to bounce and float in water.
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The flower of the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanium) is the largest unbranched flower in the world and can reach up to 15 feet tall. The bloom produces a smell like that of rotting meat, giving it the common name of corpse flower. A similar smell comes from Rafflesia, another plant that hails from the rain forests of Sumatra. Both plants developed their scent so they could be pollinated by flies they do not compete with other blooms for butterflies and hummingbirds.
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All parts of the oleander (Nerium oleander), a beautiful Mediterranean native flowering shrub, are poisonous. Ingesting oleander leaves can cause gastrointestinal, cardiac, and central nervous system problems and possible death.Somewhat like an olive tree with clusters of large whorled flowers, the oleander has a Mediterranean mystique. It grows into a large open shrub that forms an attractive screen. Colder climate gardeners can grow this subtropical in containers and overwinter it indoors. Use caution around children and pets, as all parts of the plant are highly poisonous.
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Iris means rainbow in Greek, and Iris was goddess of the rainbow in Greek mythology. Wormwood (Artemisia) was named after the goddess Artemis, milkweed (Asclepias) after the god Asclepius, and Hebe after the Greek goddess Hebe.
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In France, May 1 is La Fete du Muguet, the festival of the lily of the valley. The celebration includes giving bouquets of lily of the valley to loved ones, wishing them health and happiness.How can such a tiny flower give off such a tremendous scent. Tiny lily of the valley sends up its lovely little sprays of bell like white or pale pink flowers each spring. Allow it to spread a little (which it does, so much that it can be a problem) and it will perfume the whole area with its distinctive scent. It also makes adorable, tiny bouquets. It makes a good groundcover in small areas.
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Angiosperm is the scientific name for flowering plants and refers to the seeds being borne in capsules or fruits. Nonflowering plants pines, spruces, firs, junipers, larches, cycads, and ginkgoes are called gymnosperms.
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Snapdragon flowers resemble a dragon, and if you squeeze the sides, the dragon mouth will appear to open and close.
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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. This is the case for all plants in the sunflower family, including daisies, yarrow, goldenrod, asters, coreopsis, and bachelor buttons.
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The first potatoes were cultivated in Peru about 7,000 years ago.