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PLANT FACTS 1st
By: eba95 Date: July 29, 2010, 8:08 am
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84% of a raw apple is water.
A cucumber is 96% water.
A notch in a tree will remain the
same distance from the ground as
the tree grows.
A pineapple is a berry.
Advertisements for coffee in London
in 1657 claimed that the beverage
was a cure for scurvy, gout and other
ills.
Almonds are the oldest, most widely
cultivated and extensively used nuts
in the world.
Americans eat more bananas than
any other fruit: a total of 11 billion a
year.
Until 1883, hemp was the world's
largest agricultural crop, from which
the majority of fabric, soap, paper,
medicines, were produced.
An apple tree is at its prime when its
about 50 years old. The United States
produces about 100 million barrels
of apples a year. That's a lot of old
trees.
An arabica coffee tree can produce
up to 12 pounds of coffee a year,
depending on soil and climate.
An average ear of corn has 800
kernels, arranged in 16 rows.
Arrowroot, an antidote for poisoned
arrows, is used as a thickener in
cooking.
Avocados have the highest calories
of any fruit at 167 calories per
hundred grams.
Banana oil never saw a banana; it's
made from petroleum.
Bananas are actually herbs. Bananas
die after fruiting, like all herbs do.
Both George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis
sativa (marijuana) on their
plantations.
Cranberries are one of just 3 major
fruits native to North America.
Blueberries and Concord grapes are
the other two.
Dr. Joel Poinsett, the 1st US
ambassador to Mexico, brought the
poinsettia to US in 1828. The plant,
called "flower of the blessed night" in
Mexico was renamed in Poinsett's
honor.
Eggplant is a member of the thistle
family.
From the 1500's to the 1700's,
tobacco was prescribed by doctors
to treat a variety of ailments
including headaches, toothaches,
arthritis and bad breath.
Ginger has been clinically
demonstrated to work twice as well
as Dramamine for fighting motion
sickness, with no side effects.
Hydroponics is the technique by
which plants are grown in water
without soil.
In 1865 opium was grown in the
state of Virginia and a product was
distilled from it that yielded 4
percent morphine. In 1867 it was
grown in Tennessee: six years later it
was cultivated in Kentucky. During
these years opium, marijuana and
cocaine could be purchased legally
over the counter from any druggist.
In 1924, Pope Urban VIII threatened
to excommunicate snuff users.
In 1932 James Markham obtained the
1st patent issued for a tree. The
patent was for a peach tree.
In Siberia, in 1994, a container full of
marijuana was discovered in the
2,000-year-old grave of a Scythian
princess and priestess, among the
many other articles buried with her.
In the Netherlands, in 1634, a
collector paid 1,000 pounds of
cheese, four oxen, eight pigs, 12
sheep, a bed, and a suit of clothes for
a single bulb of the Viceroy tulip.
Morphine was given its name in
1803 by the discoverer, a 20 year old
German pharmacist named Friedrich
Saturner. He named it after
Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams.
No species of wild plant produces a
flower or blossom that is absolutely
black, and so far, none has been
developed artificially.
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