Facts in "Plants" Category
#2649 - Plants Fact     2  The leaves of the Victorian water lily are sometimes over six feet in diameter. |
| #2650 - Plants Fact 6 Orchids are grown from seed so small that it would take thirty thousand to weigh as much as one grain of wheat. |
| #2651 - Plants Fact -1 The Curly Redwood Lodge is one of northern California’s most unique lodges. It was built from one curly redwood tree that produced 57,000 board feet of lumber. The tree - cut down in 1952 - was 18 feet 2 inches at the trunk. Curly redwood is unique because of the curly grain of the wood, unlike typical straight grained redwood. |
| #2652 - Plants Fact 5 The Mexican Jumping Bean is not a bean. It is actually a thin-shelled section of a seed capsule containing the larva of a small gray moth called the jumping bean moth (Laspeyresia saltitans). |
| #2653 - Plants Fact 9 The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows. |
| #2654 - Plants Fact -2 In ancient religions, the Norsemen considered the mistletoe a baleful plant that caused the death of Baldur, the shining god of youth. |
| #2655 - Plants Fact -2 A single coffee tree yields only one pound of roasted, ground coffee annually. |
| #2656 - Plants Fact 15 Bamboo can grow up to three feet in a 24 hour period. |
| #2657 - Plants Fact -1 Kudzu is not indigenous to the South, but in that climate it can grow up to six inches a day. |
| #2658 - Plants Fact 0 The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons. |
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