Some funny and interesting facts about Plants!

Here are some interesting facts about Plants and Gardening!

 There's a lot more to our greener counterparts than we realize,secrets are lurking everywhere in our gardens. Here are some interesting facts that you didn't know about Plants-until today.

1. Wishbone flower:

    Torenia, a shade-loving annual, is called the wishbone flower. Look for tiny wishbone-shape stamens inside the purple,blue or burgundy petals.

2. Pine(Coast redwood):

The world's tallest- growing tree is the coast redwood, which grows along the Pacific Coast of the United States, mainly in California. Interestingly enough,it's not the world's oldest growing tree, that award goes to a bristle cone pine.

3. Bamboo:

Bamboo is the fastest growing woody plant in the world, it can grow 35 inches in a single day.

4. Tomato:

Tomato juice is the official state beverage of Ohio, honoring the part A.W Livingston of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, played in popularising the tomato in the late 1800s.

5. Grapes:

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that grapes were grown to make wine about 8000 years ago in Mesopotamia (today's Iraq), although the ancient Egyptians were the first to record the process of making wine about 5000 years ago.

6. Tulips:

During the 1600s, were so valuable in Holland that their bulbs were worth more than gold. The craze was called tulip mania, or tulipomania, and caused the crash of the Dutch economy.  Tulips can continue to grow as much as an inch per day after being cut.

7. Orchid:

Vanilla flavouring comes from the pod of an orchid, Vanilla planifolia. Though the pods are called vanilla beans. They are more closely related to corn than green beans.

8. Saffron :

Saffron, used as a flavouring in Mediterranean cooking, is harvested from the stigmas of a type of fall- blooming crocus, Crocus sativus.

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