Amazing Facts About Plants!

1. Bananas contain a natural chemical which makes people to feel happy.
2. Brazil is named after a tree !
3. The Amazon rainforest produces half the world’s oxygen supply.
4. Cricket bats are made of a tree called Willow tree.
5. Dendrochronology is the science of calculating a tree’s age by its rings !
6. Caffeine serves the function of a pesticide in a coffee plant ! 
7. Apple is 25% air, that is reason it floats on water !
8. Peaches, Pears, apricots, quinces, strawberries, and apples are members of the rose family !
9. Apple,potatoes and onions have the same taste, to test this eat them with you nose closed !
10. The tears during cutting an onion are caused by sulphuric acid present in them !
11. The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall !
12. Strawberry is the only fruit that bears its seeds on the outside.The average strawberry has 200 seeds !
13. Leaving skin on potatoes while cooking is healthier as all the vitamins are in the skin !
14. Around 2000 different types of plants are used by humans to make food !
15. Small pockets of air inside cranberries cause them to bounce and float in water !
16. Bamboo is the fastest-growing woody plant in the world; it can grow 35 inches in a single day !
17. 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 !
18. Cabbage has 91% water content !
19. Banana is an Arabic word for fingers !
20. The California redwood  are the tallest and largest living organism in the world !
21. There are more than 300,000 identified plant species and the list is growing all the time.
22. Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree  ! 
23. Carrots were originally purple in colour !
24. During the 1600s, tulips were so valuable in Holland that their bulbs were worth more than gold. The craze was called tulip mania and caused the crash of the Dutch economy !
25. The baobab tree found in Africa can store 1,000 to 120,000 litres of water in its swollen trunk !
26. Oak trees don’t produce acorns until they are 50 years old !
27. Caffeine serves the function of a pesticide in a coffee plant !
28. At over 2000 kilometres long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth ! 
29. The first product to have a barcode was a gum !