Some Amazing Plants Facts


The oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert.

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The tomato is not just a fruit, but it is a berry along with the Oranges, lemons, cucumber, squash, and watermelons.
     
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The white potato originated in the Andes mountains and was probably brought to Britain by Sir Francis Drake about 1586.

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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
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Orange juice helps the body absorb iron easily when consumed with a meal.
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Orchids have the smallest seeds. It takes more than 1.25 million seeds to weigh 1 gram.
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The rose family of plants, in addition to flowers, gives us apples, pears, plums, cherries, almonds, peaches and apricots.

      
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The rosy periwinkle plant, found in Madagascar, is used to cure leukemia (cancer of blood or bone marrow).

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The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
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  1. umangFriday, March 09, 2012 12:41:00 pm

    nice and i also have "rosy periwinkle plant" in my garden.

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