Friday, October 14, 2016

10 Interesting plant facts 

1.An average size tree can provide enough wood to make 170,100 pencils
2.Carrots were originally purple in colour
3.Oak trees don’t produce acorns until they are 50 years old
4. cucumber is a fruit and not a vegetable since it has seeds in the center
5.Cabbage has 91% water content.
6.85% of plant life is found in the ocean 
7.strawberry has 200 seeds 
8.Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is one of the oldest living tree species, it dates back to about 250 million years ago
9.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 
10.Bamboo is the fastest-growing woody plant in the world; it can grow 35 inches in a single day

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