15 Incredible Facts About Plants One Must Know
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Plants can be dangerous, they’ are smarter than we think and there are many more details about plants we don’t know yet — until today. They never disappoint us to amaze us human beings.
Plants are nature’s ornaments, decorating our forests, deserts, and jungles in all shapes and sizes and all the colors of the spectrum. Some plants combine colors and shapes that are breathtakingly beautiful. Others seem to have sprung from the minds of science fiction writers.
Here are 15 Incredible Facts about Plants one must know.
- 85% of plant life is found in the ocean.
2. Bamboo is an extremely rapidly growing plant. In fact, some bamboo varieties can grow almost a metre (about 3.2 feet) in a single day.
3. Tomato juice is the official state beverage of Ohio, honoring the part A. W. Livingston of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, played in popularizing the tomato in the late 1800s.
4. Lots of plants are used as dyes. You can colour cloth with stewed onion skin, tea bags, or walnut juice. One of the oldest blue dyes comes from a plant called ‘woad’ that has been used since Neolithic times — more than 6,000 years ago.
5. 90 percent of the foods humans eat come from just 30 plants.
Out of tens of thousands of plants, we could eat, mankind chooses to consume only about 30 of them. It’s crazy to contemplate how limited our diets are compared to all of the different foods we could be eating. If you think the selection of which plants we eat has anything to do with their nutritional benefits…
