Cool Plant Facts

Here are some green and cool facts about plants. Imore trees!
hope you will like them.- Squirrels play an important role in growing new
- Two famous presidents of the United States,trees in the world, they bury nuts and then forget
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grewwhere they hid them.
cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations.- A healthy birch tree can produce as much as 1
- Corpse flower or Rafflesia is the largest singlemillion seeds in a year's time(not in a lifetime).
flower. They normally grow 3 feet in diameter and a- The Tree of Hippocrates is located in Kos, Greece.
corpse flower was measured to be 42 inches inThe legend has it that Hippocrates taught his pupils
diameter. It is found in Sumatra.the art of medicine under this tree.
- Did you know the oldest living thing in existence is a- According to an estimate there are about 100,000
bristlecone pine in the white mountains of California. Itdifferent species of trees.
is 4,600 years old. It is nicknamed 'Methuselah'.- Balsa tree's wood is considered the lightest wood
- A single tree normally produces 260 pounds ofwith the greatest strength. It is used in the
oxygen in a year which is enough for a family of fourconstruction of airplane models.
people.- A high percentage of the flowers in Australian
- A single tree can absorb as much carbon in a yearrainforests are not found elsewhere.
as a car produces, driven over 8500 miles. Now plant