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       18 plant facts
       By: eba95 Date: August 9, 2010, 4:45 am
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       Venus-fy-trap,
       pitcher plant,
       bladder wort
       etc are insect
       eating plants,
       they derive
       thier nitrogen
       from them.
       In California's
       Wheeler Park,
       there is a
       Bristlecone pine
       tree with an
       estimated age
       of 5,000 years.
       An american
       coast red wood
       reaches a
       height of 110
       m.
       Bamboo is not a
       tree but a grass.
       It grows
       amazingly fast,
       at the rate of
       three feet a
       day.
       The sunflower
       always turns
       towards
       sunlight.
       Coffee was
       discovered by
       goats.
       The flower of
       artillery plant
       measures only
       0.35 mm in
       diameter. It is
       the smallest
       ever known
       flower.
       The flower of
       Rafflesia
       measures 90
       cm in diameter
       and is the
       largest known
       flower.
       Boxwood is so
       heavy that it
       does not float
       on water but
       sinks.
       Seaweed is
       used in the
       manufacturing
       of fertilizers,
       medicines,
       paint,
       toothpaste and
       in icecreams
       too.
       The oldest
       known living
       seed came from
       a North
       American Arctic
       Lupin. It was
       found in 1954,
       buried in frozen
       silt near Miller
       Greek in central
       Yukon-Canada,
       by a mining
       engineer
       named Schmidt.
       It had been
       there for 10,000 years. Yet,
       when scientist planted it, a
       plant grew which was
       identical to the modern
       plant.
       The greatest depth at which
       plant life has been found is
       884 feet.
       There are about 252 varities
       of potato grown in the
       world.
       Coniferous forests of the
       Northern Russia are the
       largest in the world.
       Edible mushrooms grow to
       their full size within seven
       days.
       Tree trunk of the baobab tree
       in Kenya is so long that some
       people make their homes
       with the hollowed out
       trunks.
       A cactus plant, only three
       feet tall may have roots
       spreading out to a lenght of
       ten feet across the desert.
       Orchid seeds are so small that
       one million of these would
       weigh somewhat less than 1
       gm.
       Plants produce oxygen in
       day time which is ten times
       more than the carbon
       dioxide produced at night.
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