Facts in "Plants" Category
#2669 - Plants Fact     1  Heroin is derived from the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, which means the poppy that brings sleep. |
| #2670 - Plants Fact -4 An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows. A pound of corn consists of approximately 1,300 kernels. 100 bushels of corn produces approximately 7,280,000 kernels. Corn is produced on every continent of the world with the exception of Antarctica. |
| #2671 - Plants Fact -2 The tree dictated on the Lebanese flag is a Cedar. |
| #2672 - Plants Fact 2 Of the 15,000-odd known species of orchids in the world, 3,000 of them can be found in Brazil. |
| #2673 - Plants Fact 1 The telegraph plant of Asia has leaves that flutter constantly, even when there is no breeze. |
| #2674 - Plants Fact 1 The giant puffball, lycoperdon giganteum, produces 7,000,000,000,000 spores, each of which could grow into a puffball a foot in diameter and collectively cover an area of 280,000 square mile, greater than the size of Texas. Fortunately, only one of the spores actually becomes a puffball, and all the others die. |
| #2675 - Plants Fact 0 The slippers plant (bulbo stylis) of Haiti looks like a pair of fuzzy slippers. |
| #2676 - Plants Fact 0 The primary purpose of growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings. Rice can, in fact, be grown in drained areas. |
| #2677 - Plants Fact 0 The fragrance of flowers is due to the essences of oil which they produce. |
| #2678 - Plants Fact 1 While known as a painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer, Leonard da Vinci was the first to record that the number of rings in the cross section of a tree trunk revealed its age. He also discovered that the width between the rings indicated the annual moisture. |
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